Multiple terminals in bash scripting

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I am trying to write a bash script, but I need multiple tabs in it or terminal. Is it possible to use that in a bash script. I need it, because I use a few commands that need to keep running.

Thank you all and sorry for my English!

do you mean you need to run multiple processes? you can use fork... — Lucas
– Lucas, Commented Feb 26, 2013 at 19:38
as ruakh stated, just apppend a & after a command to send it to the background — Fredrik Pihl
– Fredrik Pihl, Commented Feb 26, 2013 at 19:41

John Kugelman · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-26 19:41:10Z

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To run a process in the background add & at the end. For example, this runs ls in the background and uses tail to monitor the file that's being written to in the foreground.

ls -lR / > /tmp/ls.out &
tail -f /tmp/ls.out

If at any point you want to wait until the background processes are finished before continuing—perhaps at the end of your script before it exits—use a bare wait command:

wait

answered Feb 26, 2013 at 19:41

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