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Running several scripts with forever

I have several scripts in a directory, each of the scripts called bot and it's number, from 1 to the number of the scripts.

What I would like to do is somehow run all of the scripts by 1 command line through the terminal (Using Ubuntu), I've used forever command to run the script without stopping and etc.

Could you make it through the terminal or using a node js script?

Is there any other commands like forever that would do it for me?

Solution

  • You could use it through the command line with the command forever.

    You'll need to create a JSON file with the files you need.

    Example:

    [
  {
    // App1
    "uid": "app1", // ID of the script.
    "append": true,
    "watch": true,
    "script": "bot1.js", // Name of the script
    "sourceDir": "" // Where the script is located. If it's in the
                    // same location as the json file, leave it ""
  },
  {
    // App2 = > Same as app1, just different script name.
    "uid": "app2",
    "append": true,
    "watch": true,
    "script": "bot2.js",
    "sourceDir": ""
  }
]

    Then you need just to run the JSON file through the forever command. Example:

    forever start apps.json

    You can see more information about forever here.