Re: Running consecutive

From	The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Running consecutive
Date	2022-11-14 13:48 +0000
Organization	A little, after lunch
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On 13/11/2022 15:17, db wrote:
> On 11.11.2022 18.49, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>> db <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> I am preparing for an upgrade of my Kubuntu system, and have to
>>> do a lot of synching. Some of these will take a longish time, so
>>> I want to do them using a script.  However, I find that the lines
>>> in the script get run simultaneously, rather than one after the other.
>>> How do I get them to run one after the other?
>>
>> Shell scripts normally run commands consecutively rather than
>> concurrently. If you want people to debug your script you will have to
>> post it.
>>
> 
> OK, here is a sample:
> 
> echo " Running 64"
> rsync -ar arraydata64/ Dropbox/arraydata64
> echo "running 128"
> rsync -ar arraydata144/ Dropbox/arraydata144
> echo "Finished"
> 
> When I just ran this, I got the two messages immediately, although
> both synchs take a few seconds.
> 
> (Sorry, the 128 was a mistake)


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      Re: Running consecutive Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2022-11-13 20:40 +0000
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