[ale] Silly bash question

[Tim Watts]

Maybe something like this?

#/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:
> ALErs -
> 
> 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.
> 
> Must be simple but I keep stumbling on this.
> 
> Actually PERL would be OK, too.
> 
> TIA.
> 
>   - Mills
> 
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