title: BASH shell process control - any other examples of controlling/scheduling work
body: <p>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 ]</p>
  
  <p>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)</p>
  
  <p>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.</p>
  
  <p>To reduce the "generality" of the question here's an example of what I'm looking for: <a href="http://procsup.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">procsup</a></p>