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Re: ‘command … &’ creates subshell
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Dmitry Alexandrov |
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Re: ‘command … &’ creates subshell |
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Wed, 01 Jul 2020 18:45:07 +0300 |
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Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU> wrote:
> The whole point of trying to find a technique like was hoped for using
> command, and others have used env for, and still others, (exec command) (none
> of which are guaranteed to work) is so that the script will work with
> different shells and in different environments.
One could argue, that an ability to ignore builtin utilities actually adds
nothing to applicability of a script to different (unknown a priory)
environments. On the contrary — it can rather break things.
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