How do you run multiple programs in parallel from a bash script?

Question

I am trying to write a .sh file that runs many programs simultaneously

I tried this

prog1 
prog2

But that runs prog1 then waits until prog1 ends and then starts prog2...

So how can I run them in parallel?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65839752/how-to-run-several-python-programs-parallelly-in-shell-script

Answer 1

prog1 &
prog2 &