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Asked: June 12, 20262026-06-12T00:40:13+00:00 2026-06-12T00:40:13+00:00

I want to write a shell scripts that executes a few commands and waits

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I want to write a shell scripts that executes a few commands and waits for all of them to terminate.

I think what I would have to do is use

      cmd1 &
      cmd2 &
      cmd3 &
      ....

etc.

but what I don’t know is how to wait for them to terminate.

any ideas?

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    2026-06-12T00:40:14+00:00Added an answer on June 12, 2026 at 12:40 am

    This question has the answer to your problem. 🙂

    You would simply wait for all running jobs by calling the wait command.

    How to wait in bash for several subprocesses to finish and return exit code !=0 when any subprocess ends with code !=0?

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