hi friends,
I would like to trap the error exit status of the background jobs run from a main shell script. So I have run.myjobs.sh:
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for i in 1 2 3 4 5
do
my.job.sh &
done
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how can I test whather any of the jobs finishes with exit status !=0 ? The jobs must be run in background.

Thank you in advance,
ducasio

hi guys,
actually I found a solution:
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ind=0
for i in 1 2 3 4 5
do
ind=`expr $ind + 1`
my.job.sh &
RC_ARRAY[$ind]=$!
done

for i in ${RC_ARRAY[*]}
do
wait $i
RC=$?
if test $RC -ne 0
then
echo "ERROR: Return Code = $RC"
exit $RC
fi
done
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But I am interested to know if there's any other way to manage the situation with job controls or with trapping the child process.

thank you again,
ducasio