bash scripting: eval and waiting for processes in background

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 16:18 +0100, Amedee Van Gasse (ub) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a directory with some scripts with similar names, that I would like
> to run. I would like to run them all from another script, without having
> to specify their individual names. Because in the future I may add other
> scripts, and then I don't have to change the master script.
> I tried this:
> 
> SCRIPTS=`ls /root/bin/hotcopy-*.sh`
> eval "$SCRIPTS" &
> wait
> echo "Continue master script."
> 
> Works great, except for one little detail.
> I added echo lines at the start and end of each script for debugging
> purpose. Because the & moves the process to the background, I expected to
> see the following output:

Put the eval in a loop.  Something like:

for script in $SCRIPTS; do
  eval $script &
done
wait


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