[olug] kill process question

[Daniel Linder]

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On Fri, August 26, 2005 10:35, Sean Kelly wrote:

> Why not just run it with `exec`?

> 

>   g4:~ smkelly$ exec ls

> 

> That will run `ls` and then quit the shell. Well, technically `ls`
is

> replacing the shell and thus when `ls` exits there is nothing left

> controlling the terminal.



This will work in most cases, but if he is doing a "tail -f
/var/tmp/messages" then that window will stay open forever since the
tail -f never dies.



Dan



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