On 01/07/2005 10:15 AM, Mandeep Sandhu wrote: > $ exec man > > The shell closed! > > $ exec man & > [1] 10618 > $ What manual page do you want? > > [1]+ Exit 1 exec man > $ > > The man page of exec says.... > "If command is specified, it replaces the shell." Yes, that's exactly what "exec man" did, replace the shell with man. man can't live without a shell, thus it exited. > But does'nt the shell "wait" for whatever command is given to it > to complete???....little confused here. Moreover No, as you stated above, the shell is replaced by the command specified. >From the exec man page: If exec is specified with command, it shall replace the shell with command without creating a new process. > $ exec exit > bash: exec: exit: not found > > did not work! is'nt "exit" also a command? The command "exit" is a shell builtin. Correct me if I'm wrong somewhere. Thanks, Tobias -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
