title: Shell programming: Executing two applications at the same time
body: <p>I have two applications, lets call them APP1 and APP2. I would like that those
  two execute on parallel on my machine. It is not necessary, that they start at EXACTLY the
  same time but the should start at roughly the same time. An intial thought was to have a shell
  script that looks as follows:</p>
  
  <p>./APP1 &amp;<br>
  ./APP2  </p>
  
  <p>Does this the trick or do I need to insert a wait statement to make sure that APP2 starts within a certain time frame?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>