I'm trying to learn a bit or 2 about process communication under Linux, so I wrote 2 simple C programs that communicate with each other.
However, it's a bit annoying to have to run them manually every single time, so I'd like to know is there a way to make a program that will run them both, something like this:
./runner program1 program2
I'm using latest Ubuntu and Bash shell.
run.sh script
#!/bin/sh
./program1 &
./program2 &
run command:
$sh run.sh
This line will do (in Bash):
program1 & program2 &
If you want to record the output:
program1 >output1.txt & program2 >output.txt &
If you want to run the commands in two separate terminals:
xterm -e program1 & xterm -e program2 &
Why not use this:
./program1;./program2
or
./program1 &;./program2 &
I don't know why somebody thinks it's not useful,but it really works.
Surely you can write a script,but what's the content of the script?Still the same thing.
And you can change it at once with no need to open the script first.
Just write a shell script to do what you want -- you don't need to use a C program to run a C program.
Do do exactly what you asked, first created a file called runner which will be the shell script.
#!/bin/bash
for arg in $@
do
$arg &
done
$@ in bash is an array of all the arguments passed to the script, this makes the script no restricted to only launching 2 programs. Note any programs your launch with this scripts need to be on the $PATH or passed to the script as ./program1.
./runner ./program1 program2
In the example program1 is not on the $PATH but program2 is.
