On 6/27/16 12:52 PM, #pragma wrote: > Thank you for the answer. I would agree with you, but there is something > more. > If I change command from the first step to this: > > user@host:~$ exec man man man > > and leave other steps as were before, then bash crashes as well. Also on > tty logins.
Again, what do you expect to happen? You replace the bash process -- it goes away. As soon as the man process terminates, your session ends. This is what `exec' does. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/