Waiting on background tasks

[Kenneth P. Turvey]

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On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 17:32:47 +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote:

> The bash shell has a built-in "wait [n]". From man bash: "If n is not
> given, all currently active child processes are waited for, and the return
> status is zero."

Thanks to all those that responded.  This will be a big help.  Out of
curiosity, Erik, does this translate to other shells as well or is it just
a bash thing?

> So just delete "foralltasks" ;-)

I actually did a man on wait, but I didn't think about it being built-in
function. 

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