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how to wait on multiple background processes and check exit status in bash
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#!/bin/bash | |
FAIL=0 | |
echo "starting" | |
./sleeper 2 0 & | |
./sleeper 2 1 & | |
./sleeper 3 0 & | |
./sleeper 2 0 & | |
for job in `jobs -p` | |
do | |
echo $job | |
wait $job || let "FAIL+=1" | |
done | |
echo $FAIL | |
if [ "$FAIL" == "0" ]; | |
then | |
echo "YAY!" | |
else | |
echo "FAIL! ($FAIL)" | |
fi |
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So nice, thank you! It works in my script.