bash は printf が他の printf を妨害するのを防ぎます。

実際にはミューテックスが必要です。

各サブシェルは同じ/dev/stdout親シェルに同時にアクセスするため、同じ機能内でも順序は保証されません。これを保証するには、相互排除を強制するロックが必要です。つまり、/dev/stdoutロックが解除されるまで、他のプロセスは書き込みを開始できません。

#!/bin/bash

function foo {
lockdir=/tmp/myscript.lock
 mkdir "$lockdir" 2>/dev/null
while [ $? -ne 0 ]; do mkdir "$lockdir" 2>/dev/null; done
printf "Test line break: $1\nafter line break: $1\n\n"
rm -rf $lockdir
}

for VARIABLE in {1..30}
do
  foo $VARIABLE &
done
wait

これにより、次のような結果が表示されます。

$ bash plop1 2>/dev/null
Test line break: 5
after line break: 5

Test line break: 3
after line break: 3

Test line break: 11
after line break: 11

Test line break: 23
after line break: 23

Test line break: 14
after line break: 14

Test line break: 17
after line break: 17

Test line break: 24
after line break: 24

Test line break: 21
after line break: 21

Test line break: 27
after line break: 27

Test line break: 6
after line break: 6

Test line break: 2
after line break: 2

Test line break: 9
after line break: 9

Test line break: 26
after line break: 26

Test line break: 29
after line break: 29

Test line break: 20
after line break: 20

Test line break: 1
after line break: 1

Test line break: 12
after line break: 12

Test line break: 4
after line break: 4

Test line break: 13
after line break: 13

Test line break: 10
after line break: 10

Test line break: 15
after line break: 15

Test line break: 28
after line break: 28

Test line break: 25
after line break: 25

Test line break: 19
after line break: 19

Test line break: 18
after line break: 18

Test line break: 8
after line break: 8

Test line break: 7
after line break: 7

Test line break: 16
after line break: 16

Test line break: 22
after line break: 22

Test line break: 30
after line break: 30