Where is documentation on bash "wait"?

Andrew DeFaria Andrew@DeFaria.com
Sat Oct 15 18:12:00 GMT 2005


Siegfried Heintze wrote:
> I tried info and man and could not find any information on wait. I 
> want to (using bash)
>
> (1) How do I wait for multiple children and wake up when the first one 
> dies?
>
> (2) Examine the status code of the dead child and possibly spawn a new 
> one?
>
> Where is the documentation on wait?
Wait's a builtin so the documentation is in the bash(1) man page.
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