Parallel shell scripts.

[Richard Burakowski]

nicky wrote:
> The whole idea is this. I have to extract two different databases to 
> csv files. One takes about an 1 hour, the other 1.5 hours. The problem 
> is my time window, which is 2 hours. So extracting one after the other 
> is not an option. After both extractions are complete, it should load 
> the csv files into a target database.
>

sounds just like a Makefile.