How do you run multiple programs in parallel from a bash script?

Question

I am trying to write a .sh file that runs many programs simultaneously

I tried this

prog1 
prog2

Answer 1

If you're:

• On Mac and have iTerm
• Want to start various processes that stay open long-term / until Ctrl+C
• Want to be able to easily see the output from each process
• Want to be able to easily stop a specific process with Ctrl+C

One option is scripting the terminal itself if your use case is more app monitoring / management.

For example I recently did the following. Granted it's Mac specific, iTerm specific, and relies on a deprecated Apple Script API (iTerm has a newer Python option). It doesn't win any elegance awards but gets the job done.

#!/bin/sh
root_path="~/root-path"
auth_api_script="$root_path/auth-path/auth-script.sh"
admin_api_proj="$root_path/admin-path/admin.csproj"
agent_proj="$root_path/agent-path/agent.csproj"
dashboard_path="$root_path/dashboard-web"

osascript <