WAIT(1)                              BSD                               WAIT(1)



NAME
     wait - await completion of process

SYNOPSIS
     wait

DESCRIPTION
     wait pauses until all processes started with an ampersand (&) have
     completed execution.  It then reports on abnormal terminations.

     Because the wait(2) system call must be executed in the parent process,
     the shell itself executes wait without creating a new process.

BUGS
     Not all the processes of a three-stage (or longer) pipeline are children
     of the shell sh(1).  Thus, you may not be able to wait for all processes.
     This problem does not apply to csh(1).

SEE ALSO
     sh(1), ksh(1)