wait - Wait for process completion

wait [ job ... ]

Description

You can use wait to wait for the specified jobs to end. If job is not specified, qsh waits for all child processes to end.

Options

None.

Operands

Each job specifies an active job. The job can be specified as a:

• Number to refer to a process id. qsh waits for the given process to end.
• %number to refer to a job number. qsh waits for all processes in the job to end.
• %string to refer to a job whose name begins with string. qsh waits for all processes in the job to end.

Exit Status

When no job was specified, the exit status is:

• 0 when all running jobs have ended.
• >0 when unsuccessful.

When at least one job was specified, the exit status is the exit status of the last job.

Related information

• jobs - Display status of jobs in current session
• kill - Terminate or signal processes
• trap - Trap signals

1. Wait for process id 16825 to end: wait 16825
2. Wait for job number 5 to end: wait %5