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		R0flcopt3r on Nov 23, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bash patterns I use weekly You can use `wait` to wait for jobs to finish. `some_command & some_other_command & wait`

masklinn on Nov 23, 2021 [–]

One issue with that is it won't reflect the failure of those commands.

In bash you can fix that by looping around, checking for status 127, and using `-n` (which waits for the first job of the set to complete), but not all shells have `-n`.

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