I've inherited a medium sized project in which the main (batch) program is fed work through a large set of shell scripts that do a lot of process control (waiting for process to complete, sleeping, checking for conditions, etc) [ and reprocessed through perl scripts ]
Are there other examples of process control by shell scripts ? I would like to see what other people have done as a comparison. (as i'm not really fond of the 6,668 line shell script)
It may lead to that the current program works and doesn't need to be messed with or for maintenance reasons - it's too cumbersome and doing it another way will be easier to maintain, but I need other examples.
To reduce the "generality" of the question here's an example of what I'm looking for: procsup
Inquisitor project relies on process control from shell scripts extensively. You might want to see it's directory with main function set or directory with tests (i.e. slave processes) that it runs.