How to Run Parallel Scripts Every 5 Minutes in macOS Terminal (Perfect for BrowserStack) If you're testing with BrowserStack or running any script that needs to launch in parallel, repeatedly, and without clogging up your screen—this guide is for you.

Let’s say you want to run:

bash Copy Edit browserstack-sdk python browserstack_sample.py six times in parallel every 5 minutes all in the same Terminal window.

Sounds like overkill? Nah, just sounds like Bash.

🚀 The Solution: A Simple Bash Script Here’s a self-repeating shell script that does exactly that. It launches six concurrent copies of your command, waits for them all to finish, then sleeps five minutes before doing it again… forever.

🔧 Step 1: Create the Script Save the following as browserstack-parallel.sh on your Mac:

bash Copy Edit #!/usr/bin/env bash ###############################################################################

browserstack-parallel.sh

Runs “browserstack-sdk python browserstack_sample.py” six times in parallel,

waits for all six to finish, then sleeps 5 minutes and repeats forever.

###############################################################################

CMD="browserstack-sdk python browserstack_sample.py" NUM_JOBS=6 # how many parallel copies each cycle PAUSE_SECONDS=300 # 5 minutes (60 s × 5)

Cleanly kill any running children if you hit Ctrl‑C

trap 'echo -e "nStopping…"; pkill -P $$; exit 0' INT

while true; do echo "[$(date '+%F %T')] Starting ${NUM_JOBS} parallel jobs…" for ((i=1; i> "log_job${i}.txt" 2>&1 & Inside the for loop.

You now have an infinite loop of parallel power at your fingertips—use it wisely.

Stay efficient, – illphated 🧪⚡

git clone https://github.com/browserstack/python-appium-app-browserstack cd python-appium-app-browserstack

python3 -m venv env source env/bin/activate pip3 install -r requirements.txt

cd android browserstack-sdk python browserstack_sample.py

export BROWSERSTACK_USERNAME="timmyjones_V9DQej" export BROWSERSTACK_ACCESS_KEY="cJqJGT9gtGWg8F6Z68yq"

python3 -m pip install browserstack-sdk browserstack-sdk setup --username "timmyjones_V9DQej" --key "cJqJGT9gtGWg8F6Z68yq"