Quick Answer: How Do I Run Two Parallel Commands in Linux?
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How do I run two commands in parallel Linux?

If you want the second command to only run if the first command is successful, separate the commands with the logical AND operator, which is two ampersands ( && ). For example, we want to make a directory called MyFolder and then change to that directory–provided it was successfully created.

How do I run a parallel script?

To run script in parallel in bash, you must send individual scripts to background. So the loop will not wait for the last process to exit and will immediately process all the scripts.

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