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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Proper Use of WAIT Command Within .ksh Post 303024826 by RudiC on Wednesday 17th of October 2018 12:57:11 PM
Old 10-17-2018
Welcome to the forum.


wait waits for a shell's background processes ("jobs") to finish. None of your scripts is executed in background - unless we're talking of some code part within either, for which it would make more sense to wait within.
When executed in "normal" foreground mode, each script WILL execute the .sas commands in sequence AND exit only when all are finished.
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

suspend

suspend(1)							   User Commands							suspend(1)

NAME

       suspend - shell built-in function to halt the current shell

SYNOPSIS

   sh
       suspend

   csh
       suspend

   ksh
       suspend

DESCRIPTION

   sh
       Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).

   csh
       Stop the shell in its tracks, much as if it had been sent a stop signal with ^Z. This is most often used to stop shells started by su.

   ksh
       Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       csh(1), kill(1), ksh(1), sh(1), su(1M), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10							    15 Apr 1994 							suspend(1)
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