in reply to How to call Linux command sequentially

If the problem is that you are having to wait for the first command to finish before you run the second one, just put them both on a single command line, like this:
/bin/toolsetup.pl -p coi -config d4 -t all -ov /nfs/home/akmvx/test -n + toptest; touch file1
or like this:
/bin/toolsetup.pl -p coi -config d4 -t all -ov /nfs/home/akmvx/test -n + toptest && touch file1
In the first example "touch" will always run after the perl script finishes. In the second example, "touch" will only run if the perl script ends with a "0" exit status (i.e. didn't "die" with a non-zero error condition).