#! /bin/bash if [ $# -ne 1 ] then numprocs=1 else numprocs=$1 fi printf "\n\n\ncompiling with %d processor(s)\n\n\n" $numprocs | tee -a "compile_all.log" while read suite; do printf "\n\n%s\n\n" $suite | tee -a "compile_all.log" make -j $numprocs $suite | tee -a "compile_all.log" done