Parallel tasks in Linux with limited number of processes

In fact, the authorship is not mine (link to the full article). I will save it as a ready snippet:

#!/bin/bash

RANDOM=10
JOBS_COUNTER=0
MAX_CHILDREN=10
MY_PID=$$

for i in {1..100}
do
    echo Cycle counter: $i
    JOBS_COUNTER=$((`ps ax -Ao ppid | grep $MY_PID | wc -l`))
    while [ $JOBS_COUNTER -ge $MAX_CHILDREN ]
    do
        JOBS_COUNTER=$((`ps ax -Ao ppid | grep $MY_PID | wc -l`))
        echo Jobs counter: $JOBS_COUNTER
        sleep 1
    done
    sleep $(($RANDOM % 30)) &
done
echo Finishing children ...

where MY_PID=$$ is getting the PID of your own process. If we run child scripts or if we need to control another independent process, the line for calculating the number of processes can be changed as follows:

MY_PID="cyber-bot-loader.sh"
...
JOBS_COUNTER=$((`ps -ela | grep $MY_PID | wc -l`)) # ищем не дескриптору, а по имени процесса