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In linux, in shell scripting, how do you pause the foreground process (i.e. shell) until background process with process ID of PID 123 has exited?
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wait 123

^^ note that wait not only waits until background process 123 has finished but it also returns the exit code of process 123


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In linux, in shell scripting, how do you pause the foreground process (i.e. shell) until background process with process ID of PID 123 has exited?
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In linux, in shell scripting, how do you pause the foreground process (i.e. shell) until background process with process ID of PID 123 has exited?
Answer

wait 123

^^ note that wait not only waits until background process 123 has finished but it also returns the exit code of process 123

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20. Advanced Shell Scripting
h (1) for details. umask See Section 14.2. unset VAR Deletes a variable or environment variable. unset -f func Deletes a function. wait Pauses until all background jobs have completed. wait PID <span>Pauses until background process with process ID of PID has exited, then returns the exit code of the background process. wait % job Same with respect to a job spec. 20.5 Trapping Signals -- the trap Command You will often want to make your script perf

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