Executing commands simultaniously, max n at a time

sander_vk · Post by **sander_vk** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:03 am

I've been scripting in TCL/Expect and want to query multiple devices in a network.

In order to do this I've written executable shell scripts that do the querying on 1 device.

What I now need is a main script that receives as input a list of devices to query and then starts executing the already written scripts in parallel. When a script ends. Another instance of the script should start, keeping the running scripts at 10 until there are not enough devices anymore.

I've been doing some research and found that there are 3 possible ways to go:

Forking
Events
Threads

I now wonder what would be the best direction to go and where I can find some tutorial on it, as the sites I googled didn't have any handy examples to implement this.

Thanks!

Sander

Alchera · Post by **Alchera** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 7:15 pm

... and what has this to do with eggdrop?

sander_vk · Post by **sander_vk** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 5:03 am

Well not that much directly. It is about programming TCL. And I could use an eggdrop to execute the commands in parallel.

If you know a better forum to place my questions on I would be happy to post it there.

DragnLord · Post by **DragnLord** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 9:03 am

The places listed here are far better suited for this question.

sander_vk · Post by **sander_vk** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 10:16 am

Thanks!