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A1: The wait -n command in Linux Bash is used to pause the execution of a script until the next background job completes. It's particularly useful in scripts where you have multiple parallel processes running and you need to perform actions as soon as one of them finishes. Q2: How is wait -n different from the regular wait command? A2: The basic wait command without any options waits for all child processes to complete and returns the exit status of the last process to finish. On the other hand, wait -n waits only for the next background job to finish, not all of them. This allows the script to continue with other tasks as soon as any single background job is done.