On Jul 02 2020, Robert Elz wrote: > POSIX says: > > If command is specified, exec shall not return to the shell;
But it also says: If command is not found, the exit status shall be 127. If command is found, but it is not an executable utility, the exit status shall be 126. And that's what bash does. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."