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I have a script s:

echo a &
echo b &
echo c &

Now I want to know how much time it will take for the script to finish. I try

time bash s

But it gives me an immediate result which is not the correct one(my script is of course much more complicated than that I've written here and takes a lot of time) How can I ask time to wait for all the subprocesses to finish.

yukashima huksay
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1 Answers1

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Add wait to the very end of the script. This will make the script wait for all background processes to exit before continuing.

The new script:

echo a &
echo b &
echo c &

wait
Kusalananda
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