Hi, bug-bash. >From a bash script, I'd like to be able to start several subtasks and react to any one of them completing. I don't think I can do this with the current bash. The `wait' function either waits on a specified subtask to finish, or for _all_ subtasks to finish.
Am I mistaken about this perceived lack? If not, would it be possible to add this functionality into bash? The sort of thing I want to do with this is to perform lots of gzippings in separate tasks, so as to spread them amongst the cores of my 4-core processor, always keeping 4 subtasks on the go at any time. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
