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.
Eh? ``man'' just did what it was requested to do, i.e. nothing, and *then* exited. It's in a no way related to shell.
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