Fork exec shell script. /exec wait () As in the case of a fork, child processes are created and get executed but the parent process is suspended until the child process executes. To say that "&" is the answer to the user's question, "fork at one point so two copies of the same script are running" is to my mind confusing. Fork–exec Fork–exec is a commonly used technique in Unix whereby an executing process spawns a new program. It's something that bash does internally (every time you run a non-builtin command, it does a fork() to create a new copy of itself followed by an exec() to replace that new copy with whatever command you asked it to run). I'm thinking of making it fork off into multiple processes and have them execute 50/100 times at once, instead of just once. How can I run a command so that it will not die when the shell dies? I found references to nohup, but that Mar 26, 2025 ยท Whenever we run any command in a Bash shell, a subshell is created by default, and a new child process is spawned (forked) to execute the command. What "&" does, according to the bash manual, is "executes the [given] command in the background in a subshell. When using exec, however, the command following exec replaces the current shell. It should first resolve the path of this program, find the executable in one of the directories specified by path and create a new process to run it. While they are often used together (e.
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