#! /bin/sh
# Run all programs in a directory in parallel
# Usage: run-parallel directory delay
# Copyright 2013 by Marc Perkel
# docs at http://wiki.junkemailfilter.com/index.php/How_to_run_a_Linux_script_every_few_seconds_under_cron"
# Free to use with attribution
if [ $# -eq 0 ]
then
echo
echo "run-parallel by Marc Perkel"
echo
echo "This program is used to run all programs in a directory in parallel"
echo "or to rerun them every X seconds for one minute."
echo "Think of this program as cron with seconds resolution."
echo
echo "Usage: run-parallel [directory] [delay]"
echo
echo "Examples:"
echo " run-parallel /etc/cron.20sec 20"
echo " run-parallel 20"
echo " # Runs all executable files in /etc/cron.20sec every 20 seconds or 3 times a minute."
echo
echo "If delay parameter is missing it runs everything once and exits."
echo "If only delay is passed then the directory /etc/cron.[delay]sec is assumed."
echo
echo 'if "cronsec" is passed then it runs all of these delays 2 3 4 5 6 10 12 15 20 30'
echo "resulting in 30 20 15 12 10 6 5 4 3 2 executions per minute."
echo
exit
fi
# If "cronsec" is passed as a parameter then run all the delays in parallel
if [ $1 = cronsec ]
then
$0 2 &
$0 3 &
$0 4 &
$0 5 &
$0 6 &
$0 10 &
$0 12 &
$0 15 &
$0 20 &
$0 30 &
exit
fi
# Set the directory to first prameter and delay to second parameter
dir=$1
delay=$2
# If only parameter is 2,3,4,5,6,10,12,15,20,30 then automatically calculate
# the standard directory name /etc/cron.[delay]sec
if [[ "$1" =~ ^(2|3|4|5|6|10|12|15|20|30)$ ]]
then
dir="/etc/cron.$1sec"
delay=$1
fi
# Exit if directory doesn't exist or has no files
if [ ! "$(ls -A $dir/)" ]
then
exit
fi
# Sleep if both $delay and $counter are set
if [ ! -z $delay ] && [ ! -z $counter ]
then
sleep $delay
fi
# Set counter to 0 if not set
if [ -z $counter ]
then
counter=0
fi
# Run all the programs in the directory in parallel
# Use of timeout ensures that the processes are killed if they run too long
for program in $dir/* ; do
if [ -x $program ]
then
if [ "0$delay" -gt 1 ]
then
timeout $delay $program &> /dev/null &
else
$program &> /dev/null &
fi
fi
done
# If delay not set then we're done
if [ -z $delay ]
then
exit
fi
# Add delay to counter
counter=$(( $counter + $delay ))
# If minute is not up - call self recursively
if [ $counter -lt 60 ]
then
. $0 $dir $delay &
fi
# Otherwise we're done