had one more thought to make it easier. go back to your original idea of using a shell script but make the script have the format..
#!/bin/sh [your command here] echo "Command Complete" That way, its easy to see when an individual command finishes. In addition, if you use 3 separate files, 1 for each of your 3 commands, named logically, you can easily grok which what to do with each. Finally, for the [your command here] part.. If you want to be able to run more than 1 at once, if you pass in your arguments as parameters, you don't have to rewrite the file each time, you just pass in your changeables and go. IIRC $0 will contain the name of the shell script any further parameters will continue in that vein.. For a very simple example, if your shell script named test.sh were to contain #!/bin/sh ls $1 echo find . |grep $2 echo "Command Complete" you can run it with-- ./test.sh /var barncard the output would be a listing of the files in folder /var a space and a listing of files and folders from the current directory downward that contain the string barncard. Should make it easy enough to fire off jobs, multiple if you wish as long as your parameters differ (so that the open process string is unique) This should make it easy to queue up your commands.. Depending on hardware it might be possible to have 2 or 3 sets (or more? no clue what hardware you have) at once. It would depend on cpu threads and how much load you wanted to put on things. Sorry for all the blabbing, had a good day so my thinker is kinda working. Everyone have a Merry one! _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode