How do you run multiple programs in parallel from a bash script?

Question

I am trying to write a .sh file that runs many programs simultaneously

I tried this

prog1 
prog2

Answer 1

Your script should look like:

prog1 &
prog2 &
.
.
progn &
wait
progn+1 &
progn+2 &
.
.

Assuming your system can take n jobs at a time. use wait to run only n jobs at a time.