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wait await completion of process Wait until all processes started with have completed, and report on abnormal terminations. Because must be executed in the parent process, the Shell itself executes without creating a new process. sh (I) After executing you are committed to waiting until termination, because interrupts and quits are ignored by all processes concerned. The only out, if the process does not terminate, is to it from another terminal or to hang up.
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