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WAIT(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual WAIT(1) NAME wait - await process completion SYNOPSIS wait [pid] DESCRIPTION If invoked with no arguments, the wait utility waits until all existing child processes in the background have terminated. Available operands: pid If a pid operand is specified, and it is the process ID of a background child process that still exists, the wait utility waits until that process has completed and consumes its status information, without consuming the status information of any other process. If a pid operand is specified that is not the process ID of a child background process that still exists, wait exits without waiting for any processes to complete. The wait utility exits with one of the following values: 0 The wait utility was invoked with no operands and all of the existing background child processes have terminated, or the process specified by the pid operand exited normally with 0 as its exit status. >0 The specified process did not exist and its exit status information was not available, or the specified process existed or its exit status information was available, and it terminated with a non-zero exit status. If the specified process terminated abnormally due to the receipt of a signal, the exit status information of wait contains that termination status as well. STANDARDS The wait command is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 ("POSIX.2") compatible. FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8 June 5, 1993 FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8