Very simple shell script qestion

[VeeDubb]

Okay, this 'should' be realy earsy for someone out there. I have the following ultra simple shell script.

#!/bin/bash

unison
/opt/Qtopia/bin/qtopiadesktop

 

That's it. Here is the problem. I want it to runn both commands at once. Or at least, run the second command as soon as it's done running the first and here's what I mean.

 

Both of these are programs that run in X. I want to run them at the same time, but when I double click this script, I only get the first one. The second one doesn't open untill I close the first.

 

Thanks in advanced.

[Steve Scrimpshire]

#!/bin/bash

unison &
/opt/Qtopia/bin/qtopiadesktop &

 

[elvis voice] thank ya...thank ya ver' much [/elvis voice]

[liquidzoo]

#!/bin/bash<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteEBegin-->unison &<!--QuoteEBegin-->/opt/Qtopia/bin/qtopiadesktop &

 

[elvis voice] thank ya...thank ya ver' much [/elvis voice]

Beat me to it

[VeeDubb]

Thank youboth. I knew it should be simple.

[Cannonfodder]

Just to be a "show it all" like those two..

 

Basically you are running the applications in the background (ampersand symbol) vs the foreground.

 

If you run a foreground process and press ctrl-z twice it goes to background (manual method)

 

After this, type jobs to see a list of background processes. Type fg in the console and the background process becomes a foreground process again.

 

Read up on it if you are interested..

[Qchem]

If we're being like that.....

 

When running a job in the foreground you can do Ctrl-Z and then bg to background it too.... :D