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  • I thought the most important method for executing shell script was calling them with their complete (possibly relative) path: ./this/is/my/script.sh. Furthermore you can create an alias to the full path so that you need not modify $PATH. And after exiting a subshell nothing is cleaned up: The calling shell's environment never was affected. Commented Mar 14, 2014 at 0:08