`exec` - replace the shell with a command

exec [COMMAND]

Gotchas

No new process: the command takes over the shell's PID. That is why exec is used as the last line of a wrapper script under systemd - the service manager keeps tracking the right PID.

Taught in

6.17 Redirection and file descriptors

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