Waiting on background tasks

[Kenneth P. Turvey]

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This question isn't really Ubuntu specific, but it applies to Ubuntu.  

Is there a way to start a number of background tasks and then wait for
them all to complete?  That is I would like something like this:

longtask arg1 &
longtask arg2 &
longtask arg3 &
waitforalltasks
#do the next thing

Thanks.

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Kenneth P. Turvey <kt-usenet at squeakydolphin.com>

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