Wait Command in Linux with Examples | Linux Today

Wait Command in Linux with Examples

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Bobbin Zachariah
Feb 27, 2020

Wait is a shell command that waits for a given process to complete, then returns its exit status. Wait command is used to wait either particular process ID and job ID and return their termination status.

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Bobbin Zachariah

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