notification on completion of background jobs in shell scripts

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Hi,
I would like to know how I can trap the notification message like 'Done x' for jobs
that I submit as background processes in a shell script. I would like to redirect them
to a file from which I would awk out the return code.
Any help will be highly appreciated.

 

[MikeLacey]

shell_script.ksh 2>&1 > output_file &
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