[Techtalk] probably a stupid scripting question

[Miriam English]

Adam Williamson wrote:
> AIUI - and, bear in mind, I could be utterly wrong - it's mainly for use
> in things like wrapper scripts. Say you want to write a script to do a
> bunch of preparation, then finally run Firefox. If you end it with 'exec
> firefox', then you don't have the wrapper script hanging around forever
> while Firefox is running; the wrapper script does its stuff, runs
> Firefox, and then all you have is a Firefox process.

Thanks Adam.
I wonder why don't people use "&" at the end of the command though?
It looks like the script process vanishes after running its course when 
I use that technique (at least I can't find any sign of it when I look 
with top or kp).

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