If you do;

$ exec ./foo.sh

You will simply see the following line;
[Process completed]

and the control does not return to the current shell.


On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Sanjiva Weerawarana <[email protected]>wrote:

> No saying "sh -c .." means you're creating a new shell and then exec'ng in
> there. In that case you might as well just say "java .." (without the exec
> at all).
>
> Doesn't having "exec java" at the end give the return code of the java
> command to the calling shell? That's what's spsed to happen.
>
> Sanjiva.
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Afkham Azeez <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> sh -c "exec java ..."
>> worked!
>>
>> Earlier the script only had "exec java ..."
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Sanjiva Weerawarana <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Its good to use exec so that the parent shell process doesn't hang
>>> around. That's common practice for shell scripts which set up a bunch of
>>> stuff and run something else right at the end.
>>>
>>> But that should not be a problem as the process exit status should be
>>> that of the exec'ed command IIRC (new command is run in the same process).
>>>
>>> Here's a small test:
>>>
>>> $ cat /tmp/foo.sh
>>> #!/bin/sh
>>>
>>> exit 79
>>> $ sh -c "exec /tmp/foo.sh"
>>> $ echo $?
>>> 79
>>>
>>> Sanjiva.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 4:13 AM, Afkham Azeez <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Instead of simply doing; "java ..." we do "exec java ...". Why have we
>>>> used exec here? I'm trying to solve the restart issue using exit codes, and
>>>> when exec is used, the process exit code cannot be captured.
>>>>
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>
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