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35.Dd October 12, 2013
36.Dt PWAIT 1
37.Os
38.Sh NAME
39.Nm pwait
40.Nd wait for processes to terminate
41.Sh SYNOPSIS
42.Nm
43.Op Fl v
44.Ar pid ...
45.Sh DESCRIPTION
46The
47.Nm
48utility will wait until each of the given processes has terminated.
49.Pp
50The following option is available:
51.Bl -tag -width ".Fl v"
52.It Fl v
53Print the exit status when each process terminates.
54.El
55.Sh EXIT STATUS
56.Ex -std
57.Pp
58Invalid pids elicit a warning message but are otherwise ignored.
59.Sh SEE ALSO
60.Xr kill 1 ,
61.Xr pkill 1 ,
62.Xr ps 1 ,
63.Xr wait 1 ,
64.Xr kqueue 2
65.Sh NOTES
66.Nm
67is not a substitute for the
68.Xr wait 1
69builtin
70as it will not clean up any zombies or state in the parent process.
71.Sh HISTORY
72A
73.Nm
74command first appeared in SunOS 5.8.
75This implementation was imported from
76.Fx
77into
78.Dx 3.5 .