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Contents

Ch. 1. Introduction

Ch. 2. System and Network Administration Overview

Ch. 3. Linux Commands

Ch. 4. Boot Methods

Ch. 5. Package Management

Ch. 6. The Bash Shell and Korn Shell

Overview of Features

Invoking the Shell

Arithmetic Expressions

Command History

Command Execution

Restricted Shells

Built-in Commands (Bash and Korn Shells)

Ch. 7. Pattern Matching

Ch. 8. The Emacs Editor

Ch. 9. The vi, ex, and vim Editors

Ch. 10. The sed Editor

Ch. 11. The gawk Programming Language

Ch. 12. Source Code Management: An Overview

Ch. 13. The Concurrent Versions System (CVS)

Ch. 14. The Subversion Version Control System

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wait

    wait [ID]

Pause in execution until all background jobs complete (exit status 0 is returned), or pause until the specified background process ID or job ID completes (exit status of ID is returned). Note that the shell variable $! contains the process ID of the most recent background process.

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