[ale] Calling shell scripts from shell scripts

Asif asife at mindspring.com
Fri Oct 5 00:11:51 EDT 2001


What about nohup? Does that help?

Asif

Calvin Harrigan wrote:

> Hi all,
>         This might seem to be a trivial question, but how do I call a bash shell
> script from another bash script and let the calling script close?  Currently
> when I call one script from another the first one stays in memory even though
> it should have completed.  I've tried starting the second script in the
> background using the '&' trick, but that didn't work...  Any ideas?
>
> Thanks guys...
>
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