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Simultaneous commands

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I'm trying to get bash to execute two commands simultaneously. I've read a little about job control, &, bg, fg, but the problem is that the command I want to run doesn't run properly in the bg.

Specifically, I'm trying to get two movie files to start running simultaneously in mplayer (to compare the two).

$ mplayer [file1] & mplayer [file2] &

doesn't work.

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answered 2 Years ago ettorina · Accepted Answer

Have you tried writing a script that performs that performs this kind of task?

Here is a simple one.

#!/bin/bash



mplayer [file1] & 

mplayer [file2] &