On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 08:34:50PM -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > It's not clear, even to a reasonably intelligent bash progammer, that > the use of "exec" is to insure compatibility with fish and tcsh users. The use of exec is not to ensure compatability. Just doing sh -c "..." would be enough. The "exec" is for efficiency. It is not _needed_. I would skip it, personally. The efficiency gains are neglibible. -- rgds Stephen _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev