Question

I have 50 php files that I would like to run simultaneously from the command line. Right now, I am running them in multiple CLI windows using the code:

php Script1.php

I would like to be able to call one single script file that would execute all 50 php files simultaneously. I have been reading about how to make the command line not wait for the output, but I can’t seem to make it work.

I am new to both MAC and Scripting – maybe I don’t need a script? Is there another mac based solultion that can do this without me having to open 50 separate terminal windows?

Answer 1

You can just add ampersand ‘&‘ to separate each command:

php script1.php & php script2.php & php script3.php ...

This ampersand symbol will tell the shell to run command on background.

To check the output, you can redirect it to a file:

php script1.php > script1.log.txt & php script2.php > script2.log.txt

And you can just do a tail on it to read the log:

tail -f script1.log.txt