pwait(1): Add EXAMPLES section to man page

* Add small EXAMPLES section to the man page showing the different
  flags and exit codes.

* Complete description for -v flag.

Approved by:	manpages (bcr@)
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Fernando Apesteguía 2020-10-05 13:35:34 +00:00
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.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd January 26, 2020
.Dd October 5, 2020
.Dt PWAIT 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
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hours
.El
.It Fl v
Print the exit status when each process terminates.
Print the exit status when each process terminates or
.Ql timeout
if the timer goes off earlier.
.El
.Sh EXIT STATUS
The
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flag is specified and a timeout occurs, the exit status will be 124.
.Pp
Invalid pids elicit a warning message but are otherwise ignored.
.Sh EXAMPLES
Start two
.Xr sleep 1
processes in the background.
The first one will sleep for 30 seconds and the second one for one hour.
Wait for any of them to finish but no more than 5 seconds.
Since a timeout occurs the exit status is 124:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
$ sleep 30 & sleep 3600 &
[1] 1646
[2] 1647
$ pwait -o -t5 1646 1647
$?
124
.Ed
.Pp
Same as above but try to obtain the exit status of the processes.
In this case
.Ql timeout
is shown and the exit status is 124:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
$ sleep 30 & sleep 3600 &
[1] 1652
[2] 1653
$ pwait -v -t 5 1652 1653
timeout
$?
124
.Ed
.Pp
Start two
.Xr sleep 1
processes in the background sleeping for 30 and 40 seconds respectively.
Wait 60 seconds for any of them to finish and get their exit codes:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
$ sleep 30 & sleep 40 &
[1] 1674
[2] 1675
$ pwait -v -t 60 1674 1675
1674: exited with status 0.
1675: exited with status 0.
[1]- Done sleep 30
[2]+ Done sleep 40
$ echo $?
0
.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr kill 1 ,
.Xr pkill 1 ,