Bash Sub Shells

Courtesy Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community  Tue, 11/11/2008 - 13:00

When writing bash scripts you sometimes need to run commands in the background. This is easily accomplished by appending the command line to be run in the background with an ampersand "&".

But what do you do if you need to run multiple commands in the background? You could put them all into a separate script file and then execute that script followed by an ampersand, or you can keep the commands in your main script and run them as...

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