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		AYBABTME on Oct 23, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nsh: A fish/bash-like Posix shell in Rust The idea is to return to a fish shell, but with all the env-vars that bash might have loaded as a result of executing the script.

knjmooney on Oct 23, 2021 [–]

`exec <shell>` would avoid nested shells and inherit the environment. Which might be preferable if you find your terminal emulator complaining about processes still running on close.

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