For a small script i want it so that the terminal closes when the script has completed its tasks.
To do so i use at the end if the script the following:
however the terminal stay's open.
i tried it to exit immediately (without the 10 after exit)
but that also wont work
tried &exit without result
tried && exit without result
cant find the solution trough google, so i hope somebody can help me here.
but when i just use exit i think it should exit the terminal, or am i that wrong?
The shell is closed, not the terminal.
A terminal is -strictly speaking- hardware attached to a computer that provides basic input/output features. This definition however is now pretty much historical as nowadays terminal emulators are much more common and popular (putty, xterm, etc).
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