[Cialug] Looking for a simple parallelization command

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Barry Von Ahsen <barry at vonahsen.com> wrote:
> prog1 > /tmp/prog1out & pid1=$!
> prog2 > /tmp/prog2out & pid2=$!
> prog3 > /tmp/prog3out & pid3=$!
> prog4 > /tmp/prog4out & pid4=$!
>
> wait $pid1 $pid2 $pid3 $pid4

Hi, what does $! do? (I tried searching but $! made google unhappy)

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