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Explore Stack InternalThe '&' places your sub-scripts into the background, which is why they're all running at the same time.
What you probably want to do is invert your loops:
for script in script1 script2 script3 …; do for folder in $(cat $path/names.txt); do {( cd $path/$folder; $script; }) & done wait done The '&' places your sub-scripts into the background, which is why they're all running at the same time.
What you probably want to do is invert your loops:
for script in script1 script2 script3 …; do for folder in $(cat $path/names.txt); do { cd $path/$folder; $script; } & done wait done The '&' places your sub-scripts into the background, which is why they're all running at the same time.
What you probably want to do is invert your loops:
for script in script1 script2 script3 …; do for folder in $(cat $path/names.txt); do ( cd $path/$folder; $script; ) & done wait done The '&' places your sub-scripts into the background, which is why they're all running at the same time.
What you probably want to do is invert your loops:
for script in script1 script2 script3 …; do for folder in $(cat $path/names.txt); do { cd $path/$folder; $script$script; } & done wait done The '&' places your sub-scripts into the background, which is why they're all running at the same time.
What you probably want to do is invert your loops:
for script in script1 script2 script3 …; do for folder in $(cat $path/names.txt); do { cd $path/$folder; $script } & done wait done The '&' places your sub-scripts into the background, which is why they're all running at the same time.
What you probably want to do is invert your loops:
for script in script1 script2 script3 …; do for folder in $(cat $path/names.txt); do { cd $path/$folder; $script; } & done wait done The '&' places your sub-scripts into the background, which is why they're all running at the same time.
What you probably want to do is invert your loops:
for script in script1 script2 script3 …; do for folder in $(cat $path/names.txt); do { cd $path/$folder; $script } & done wait done