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Inspired_Blue
Asked: 2016-01-28 08:36:11 +0800 CST

How to run multiple scripts each of which runs forever through one script?

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Suppose I have the following two scripts:

#!/bin/sh
while true
do
    #Do something
    sleep 1m
done

and

#!/bin/sh
while true
do
    #Do something else
    sleep 1m
done

called First.sh and Second.sh respectively.

Now I want to create a script called Start.sh which would run both of them at the start of the computer:

#!/bin/sh
/path/to/files/First.sh
/path/to/files/Second.sh

The problem with the above is: First.sh runs forever and Second.sh never gets executed. Second.sh runs only after I kill First.sh. How to start them both simultaneously?

p.s.: In place of First.sh one could have put chromium-browser in Start.sh. Second.sh wouldn't start unless chromium-browser is killed.

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Put `&˙ at the end of each line and both scripts will run in background independently of each other:

    #!/bin/sh
/path/to/files/First.sh &
/path/to/files/Second.sh &
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