Hi Listers, I have a korn shell script which needs to run 3 sqlplus scripts in parallel then run the final sqlplus script. Is there a way to ensure that sqlplus scripts 1 thru 3 completes before running the final sqlplus script? I am a newbie in shell scripting. use wait (a shell builtin): foo1 & foo2 & wait foo3 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l