There are a few possible answers to this, but in the particular case where one shell script calls another program or script at the end, the answer is easy. Use exec: #!/bin/bash # Do stuff here ... # ...

Shell scripting is one of those skills that are absolutely invaluable on especially UNIX and BSD-based systems like the BSDs, the two zillion Linux distributions as well as MacOS. Yet not every shell ...

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