Validate Use Flock to run only one instance of process with Cron

script1-loop.sh

#!/bin/bash

for i in {2..100}; do
  # Your code to be executed in each iteration goes here
  echo "Script 1 Iteration: $i"
  sleep 1
done

script2-loop.sh

#!/bin/bash

for i in {2..100}; do
  # Your code to be executed in each iteration goes here
  echo "Script 2 Iteration: $i"
  sleep 1
done

terminal-1-flock-command

# Run the script1-loop.sh script in terminal 1 to run script1-loop.sh with a lock using flock.
flock -n /tmp/mylock.lock bash script1-loop.sh

terminal-2-watch-command

# Run the following command in another terminal to watch the output of ps command to print the any script that is using 
# script.*.sh files.
watch 'ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep script.*.sh'

terminal-3-flock-command

# Run the script2-loop.sh script in terminal 3 to run script1-loop.sh with a lock using flock.
flock -n /tmp/mylock.lock bash script2-loop.sh

terminal-3-without-flock

# Now in terminal 3 run the script2-loop.sh without flock.
bash script2-loop.sh