Do start up programs run inside or outside the shell?

[Todd Chester]

On 4/24/19 11:14 PM, Sylvain Viart wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 24/04/2019 21:54, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>> On 4/23/19 3:48 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>>> Do (session and) start up programs run inside or
>>> outside the "Shell" (bash)?
>>>
>>> I other words, if I want something to run inside the shell, do I
>>> need `bash -c "xxx"`
>>
>> Figured it out.  It is outside the shell, so I
>> needed to add
>>
>>    bash -d "xxx"
>>
>>    bash -c "if [ ! $(pgrep osmo) ]; then /usr/bin/osmo; fi"
> 
> My advise is:
> 
> put all your commands into a shell script and call it. You will have 
> many benefits:
> 
>   * git control source available
>   * editor and clear syntax reading
>   * you know the running environment
>   * you can document inside your code, for later when you come back
>   * many more...
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Sylvain.

Makes perfect sense.  Thank you!  And I write a lot
in Perl 6 too, which the taype of things are really easy
to do.  Plus Perl6 gives you the system calls option of
running inside the shell or outside