[Gllug] Why does this script not work?

[Jonathan Dye]

At 10:20 11/12/01 +0000, you wrote:

>>> append :
>>> exec /bin/bash
>>> 
>>> is one option.
>>
>>This would give you a new subshell every time you ran that script; if it
>>was used anything like `cd', you'd end up with about a hundred million
>>subshells to exit back out of.
>
>Errr.... no. That's what the "exec" is for.

But isn't the script run in a subshell anyway and therefore the exec will
just replace the subshell with /bin/bash leaving you with a subshell!

JD


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