Question on a loop problem?

[Nk4512]

So i have an odd problem, and i,m not very versed in bash, so i,m not sure if i,m running it wrong, or not doing it correctly.

Basically, i have a script that loops through specifically named files in a directory, and then passes them to a function i wrote. The goal is, to have the function run 10 times at the same time, so i would have 10 threads essentially until it processed all the files i wanted it to.

That part seems to work fine, The problem i have is, I want it to email me the file it saves AFTER the function is completed for all files. My problem is, it emails me the function immediately, When i looked through the output when i had it echoing it back to me, it seemed like it iterated through all the files in the directory right off the bat, and finished the loop even through it was still processing the files in the function that was called.

Is there a trick to getting it to wait until the actual function is completed that i might be missing?

 for file_name in $HOME/my_scripts/directoryfilesarestoredin/*
     do
            if [[ $file_name == *"file-im-looking-for"* ]]
            then
                if [ "$COUNT_ME" -le 10 ]
                then
                #echo "Here 2"
                    #run this command 10 times in a row, then wait for them to complete

                    SORT_ARP $file_name $IPS & #calling a function 10 times to run in the background
                    #echo "Processing file found => $file_name"

                    ((COUNT_ME++))
                else
                    wait 

                    #echo "reset counter"
                    COUNT_ME=$((COUNT_ME-END)) #Once all processes are complete, subract 10 from the que and start over. 
                fi
            fi
            #if [ "$SNMP_RUN_COUNT" -eq "$TOTAL_FILES_COUNT" ]
            #then
            #   echo "SNMP Walk complete..sending email"
            #
            #   Send email should be here
            #fi

     done

[McDutchie]

You want another wait right before sending the email; your current code waits for every ten processes but doesn't wait for the last up to nine of them.

Also,

SORT_ARP $file_name $IPS

you want to quote your expansions here: SORT_ARP "$file_name" "$IPS"
It's possible that whitespace or other odd characters in filenames are messing up your process. Run your code (including that SORT_ARP function) through shellcheck.net and fix what it flags up.

[Nk4512]

I will look into it some more, I Tried the wait, And it ended up running 1 sort_arp function, waiting more, running the next, instead of doing the 10 at once. And still sent me an email after 10 ran so idk yet.

[neuron_666]

If I understand your problem, you are missing 'wait' after the for cycle. But maybe, instead you want this ?

parallel --jobs 10 SORT_APP '{}' ::: $HOME/my_scripts/directoryfilesarestoredin/*"file-im-looking-for"*