[ale] Silly bash question

[John Mills]

Tim -

Clean. Thanks.

On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, Tim Watts wrote:

> #/bin/bash

> CAPTURE=output.log

> for c in "$@"; do
> 	$c >>"$CAPTURE" 2>&1 &
> 	PIDS="$PIDS $!"
> done

> echo "$PIDS"

> Then call it like this:

> <script-name> "echo test1" "echo test2" "echo test3"

> On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 11:12 -0500, John Mills wrote:

>> I want to write a bash script to launch several processes into background
>> without waiting for them to exit, and return a list of their PIDs.