bash scripting: eval and waiting for processes in background

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 08:41 -0700, Matt Iavarone wrote:

> This is not exactly my strong point, scripting, but wouldn't you need
> some kind of threading to start each script to run independent of the
> other?  Something like _thread in python?
> 

Nope.  The shell forks of a new process for each script and runs it in
the background.  You can see what is happening by running

ps axjf

which give a nice process tree and shows the parent/child relation among
all the running processes.


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