Kill a process and wait for the process to exit

No. What you can do is write a loop with kill -0 $PID. If this call fails ($? -ne 0), the process has terminated:

while kill -0 $PID; do     sleep 1done

(kudos to qbolec for the code)

linux bash unix process kill-process

Use wait (bash builtin) to wait for the process to finish:

 pkill <previous_pid> wait <previous_pid>

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