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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting forking question myscript vs . myscript vs exec myscript Post 302575738 by jlim0930 on Tuesday 22nd of November 2011 04:49:05 PM
Old 11-22-2011
forking question myscript vs . myscript vs exec myscript

I have a question about the following

what is the difference between running myscript vs . myscript vs exec myscript ?

I know that when you just run myscript it will fork a child process and run the script and exits.

What does the . myscript and exec myscript do and why is it different and needed ?
 

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