tldr/pages/linux/waitpid.md

waitpid

Wait for the termination of arbitrary processes. See also: wait. More information: https://manned.org/waitpid.

• Sleep until all processes whose PIDs have been specified have exited:

waitpid {{process_id1 process_id2 ...}}

• Sleep for at most n seconds:

waitpid {{[-t|--timeout]}} {{n}} {{process_id1 process_id2 ...}}

• Do not error if specified PIDs have already exited:

waitpid {{[-e|--exited]}} {{process_id1 process_id2 ...}}

• Sleep until n of the specified processes have exited:

waitpid {{[-c|--count]}} {{n}} {{process_id1 process_id2 ...}}

• Display help:

waitpid {{[-h|--help]}}