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  • I too am not sure about what exec does. I mean… I understand what it’s supposed to do but I can see only a minor difference between doing script.sh & or exec script.sh &. In both case the command is executed in a child process, it doesn’t replace the calling process, see: paste.alacon.org/44474 (too long to copy it here in a comment…). What am I doing wrong? Commented Nov 15, 2017 at 21:01