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                      3: exec                         Command                         exec
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                      8: Execute command directly
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                     12: The shell sh normally  executes commands with a fork system call,
                     13: which creates a new process.  The shell command exec directly ex-
                     14: ecutes the given command with an exec system call instead.  Norm-
                     15: ally, this terminates execution of the current shell.
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                     17: If the  command consists  only of redirection  specifications, as
                     18: described in  sh, exec redirects the input or  output of the cur-
                     19: rent shell accordingly without terminating it.  If the command is
                     20: omitted, exec has no effect.
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                     22: ***** See Also *****
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                     24: commands, exec, fork(), sh
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