Background a certain number of jobs in bash using job control

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at June 28, 2011 11:55 by alfirth

Initial Code

#!/bin/bash
for i in {1..10}; do  
  while [ `jobs | wc -l` -ge 4 ] ; do  
    sleep 1 
  done
  (echo $i ; sleep 3 ) & 
done

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this works even if you call this script in the background... awesome

Initial Title

Background a certain number of jobs in bash using job control

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Bash