[NTLUG:Discuss] Complex Script question

[Eric Schnoebelen]

Jack Snodgrass writes:
- Are there any easy ways to do this? I know that I 
- can do something complex ( create special file, wait
- for it to be removed, go onto the next step, etc ) but 
- I was wondering if there was a 'wait for pids to die' 
- type command. 

	Yes, it's called `wait', and available in most bourne
derived shells.  It will wait for all oustanding background jobs
that are children of this shell to complete before proceeding.

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