[TAG] Quick bash scripting question

[Justin Piszcz]

On Mon, 15 Aug 2011, Deividson Okopnik wrote:

> Hello everyone
>
> Im trying to do something pretty straightforward with a bash script,
> but I guess im not searching for the correct name.
>
> I need to open several programs on the background - 5 copies of
> client, 5 copies of client1, while dismissing the program output
>
> Any help?
>
> Thanks
>
> Deividson

Does this work for you?

# nohup ./client > /dev/null 2>&1 &
[1] 21837
# nohup ./client > /dev/null 2>&1 &
[2] 21840
# nohup ./client > /dev/null 2>&1 &
[3] 21842
# nohup ./client > /dev/null 2>&1 &
[4] 21844
# nohup ./client > /dev/null 2>&1 &
[5] 21846
# nohup ./client1 > /dev/null 2>&1 &
[6] 21849
# nohup ./client1 > /dev/null 2>&1 &
[7] 21851
# nohup ./client1 > /dev/null 2>&1 &
[8] 21853
# nohup ./client1 > /dev/null 2>&1 &
[9] 21856
# nohup ./client1 > /dev/null 2>&1 &
[10] 21858

# ps | grep -c client
10

Justin.