I was blown away when I learned this. From this thread on stackoverflow it turns out that by simply adding an ampersand to a line containing a function call you can send it to run in the background!
I always thought that this was restricted to programs/scripts you can call from the command line!
#!/bin/bash function foo { echo $1 sleep $1 date } for i in `seq 1 10`; do foo $i & done
I always thought that this was restricted to programs/scripts you can call from the command line!
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