Waiting on background tasks

[Dennis Kaarsemaker]

On ma, 2006-04-10 at 00:40 -0500, Kenneth P. Turvey wrote:

> longtask arg1 &
PID1=$!
> longtask arg2 &
PID2=$!
> longtask arg3 &
PID3=$!

wait $PID1
wait $PID2
wait $PID3
-- 
Dennis K.
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