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

Question

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

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Answer 1

Wait for all jobs and return the exit code of the last failing job. Unlike solutions above, this does not require pid saving. Just bg away, and wait.

function wait_ex {
    # this waits for all jobs and returns the exit code of the last failing job
    ecode=0
    while true; do
        wait -n
        err="$?"
        [ "$err" == "127" ] && break
        [ "$err" != "0" ] && ecode="$err"
    done
    return $ecode
}