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Old 07-16-2008
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Smile the flag -c in sh command
I need your help please.
In a production system, i've seen many running process as follow:

sh -c ./pathname/shellname

what exactly the flag option -c is used for?
ive tried to look at the man page, but it doesnt say much.
ill appreciate yor help. Thanks
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User Commands sh(1)

The following options specify the resource whose limits
are to be printed or set. If no option is specified, the
file size limit is printed or set.

-c maximum core file size (in 512-byte blocks)
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From a Bourne Shell man referring to the sh command line:

-c string If the -c option is present then commands are read from
string.
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Smile sh -c ./pathname/shellname
Thanks for your reply, but im sorry, i wanted to know exactly what is the difference, advantage or disadvantage if i didnt type this flag instead ?
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When there is only one argument on the command line to sh and the argument does not contain space characters, it makes no difference.
The arguments are named (e.g. -c) rather than positional.
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