How to wait in bash for several subprocesses to finish and return exit code 0 when any subprocess ends with code 0

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How to wait in a bash script for several subprocesses spawned from that script to finish, and then return exit code !=0 when any of the subprocesses ends with code !=0?

Simple script:

#!/bin/bash
for i in `seq 0 9`; do
  doCalculations $i &
done
wait

The above script will wait for all 10 spawned subprocesses, but it will always give exit status 0 (see help wait). How can I modify this script so it will discover exit statuses of spawned subprocesses and return exit code 1 when any of subprocesses ends with code !=0?

Is there any better solution for that than collecting PIDs of the subprocesses, wait for them in order and sum exit statuses?

Jun 3, 2022 in Linux Administration by Rahul
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