| Fred Kleinschmidt 2006-04-02, 7:42 pm |
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"star" <shanmugaster@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1143734297.252403.238810@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>
> cat filelist.txt | while read filename
> do
> processa $filename
> done
>
>
> processb
>
> filelist.txt contains a list of file which has to be given as input to
> processa. By using while loop mutiple threads of processa is started.
> and time for each thread of processa cannot be determined because it
> varies with the filesize. once all the threads of processa gets
> completed, processb has to be started. Now my question is how to
> identify whether all the threads of processa has got completed or not.
>
> Thanks in advance
> star
>
As written, you will not have multiple threads. processa will execute
for the first input, then when that ends it will execute for the second,
and so on.
Perhaps you want
processa $filename &
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Fred L. Kleinschmidt
Boeing Associate Technical Fellow
Technical Architect, Software Reuse Project
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