wait(1)                      DG/UX 5.4 Rel. 2.01                     wait(1)


NAME
       wait - await completion of process

SYNOPSIS
       wait [ n ]

DESCRIPTION
       Wait for your background process whose process id is n and report its
       termination status.  The optional process id argument, n, is
       available only through the sh and ksh.  If n is omitted, all your
       shell's currently active background processes are waited for and the
       return code will be zero.

       The shell itself executes wait, without creating a new process.

SEE ALSO
       csh(1), ksh(1), sh(1), wait(2).

BUGS
       Not all the processes of a pipeline with three or more stages are
       children of the shell; thus, they cannot be waited for.




































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