wait wait for process to complete	KornShell Built-in
	SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION DIAGNOSTICS PORTABILITY NOTE SEE ALSO

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SYNOPSIS

wait [pid|job-id...]

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DESCRIPTION

wait waits for the termination of one or more jobs or child processes in the background. If you specify job-ids, wait waits for all processes in each job to terminate. If you specify a pid, wait waits for the child process with that process ID to terminate. If no child process has that process ID, wait returns immediately.

If you specify neither a pid nor a job-id, wait waits for the termination of all process IDs known to the invoking shell.

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DIAGNOSTICS

If you specified a job-id which has terminated or is unknown by the invoking shell, an error message and a return code of 127 is returned. If you specified a pid which has terminated or is unknown to the shell, a return code of 127 is returned. If a signal terminated the process abnormally, the exit status is a value greater than 128 unique to that signal; otherwise, possible exit statuses are:

0

Successful completion.

1-126

An error occurred.

127

A specified pid or job-id has terminated or is unknown by the invoking shell.

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PORTABILITY

POSIX.2. x/OPEN Portability Guide 4.0.

The ability to handle a job ID as well as a process ID is an extension to the XPG standard.

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NOTE

This command is built into the MKS KornShell.

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SEE ALSO

Commands:

sleep