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wait - Wait for process completion
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wait [ job ... ]
You can use wait to wait for the specified job(s) to end. If job is not specified, qsh
waits for all child processes to end.
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Each job specifies an active job. The job can be specified as a:
v Number to refer to a process id. qsh waits for the given process to end.
v %number to refer to a job number. qsh waits for all processes in the job to end.
v %string to refer to a job whose name begins with string. qsh waits for all
processes in the job to end.
Exit status of the last job to end.
v “jobs - Display status of jobs in current session”
v “kill - Terminate or signal processes”
1. Wait for process id 16825 to end: wait 16825
2. Wait for job number 5 to end: wait %5
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Utilities for working with parameters and variables
92 Qshell Interpreter (qsh)
The following are Qshell utilities for working with parameters and variables:
v export - Set export attribute for variables
v local - Assign a local variable in a function
v readonly - Set read-only attribute for variables
v set - Set or unset options and positional parameters
v shift - Shift positional parameters
v unset - Unset values of variables and functions
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