Re: ‘command … &’ creates subshell

From	Dmitry Alexandrov <dag@gnui.org>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: ‘command … &’ creates subshell
Date	2020-07-01 18:45 +0300
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Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU> wrote:
> The whole point of trying to find a technique like was hoped for using command, and others have used env for, and still others, (exec command) (none of which are guaranteed to work) is so that the script will work with different shells and in different environments.

One could argue, that an ability to ignore builtin utilities actually adds nothing to applicability of a script to different (unknown a priory) environments.  On the contrary — it can rather break things.

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Re: ‘command … &’ creates subshell Dmitry Alexandrov <dag@gnui.org> - 2020-07-01 18:45 +0300

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