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Bash Challenge #1
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bash-challenge-1.txt
Write a script pardo.sh. It should take a target number of processes N, and a list of commands. The commands should be executed in parallel on up to N processes.
Usage: pardo.sh NUM_PROCESSES COMMAND...
Test as follows:
time /tmp/pardo.sh 2 "sleep 2" "sleep 4" "sleep 4" "sleep 2"
This should take 6 seconds.
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