Execute multiple commands in background and evaluate their return codes

Revision: 4552

at January 6, 2008 10:11 by nohn

Initial Code

#!/bin/bash
/bin/false &
PID1=$!
/bin/true &
PID2=$!
wait $PID1
RET1=$?
wait $PID2
RET2=$?
if [ $RET1 == 0 ] && [ $RET2 == 0 ]; then
    echo succeeded
    exit 0
else
    echo failed
    exit 1
fi

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Execute multiple commands in background, wait for each to be finished and evaluate their return codes.

Initial Title

Execute multiple commands in background and evaluate their return codes

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Bash

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