[lug] checking bg processes' exit status

Lori Reed lorireed at lightning-rose.com
Tue Mar 4 11:15:40 MST 2008


Nick Golder wrote:

> I have a bash script that is setting a series of processes in the
> background and I want to see what their exit codes are.  I have played
> around trying to find a way to do it and I haven't found a reliable way,
> yet.  Any suggestions?

I know how to do such things in C, I'm curious to learn other solutions.

Lori



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