background jobs exit status



i need to execute 5 jobs at a time in background and need to get the exit status of all the jobs i wrote small script below , i'm not sure this is right way to do it.any ideas please help.


$cat run_job.ksh

#!/usr/bin/ksh
####################################
typeset -u schema_name=$1
count=0
cat $home/tablist.list|
while read table
do
sas $table.sas &
count=`expr $count + 1`
echo $count
rc=$?
if (( $rc > 0 )); then
echo " executing the n't succes for $table rc "
exit 1
fi
cnt=$(jobs -l | wc -l )
if [[ $cnt -le 5 ]] ; then
continue
else
wait
#echo "in the wait mode"
fi

done
exit 0


last edited by grepme : 7 hours ago at 07:29 pm.

can somebody help me with this code



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background jobs exit status and limit the number of jobs to run  



last edited by grepme : 13 hours ago at 01:20 pm.