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		mfukar on April 6, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fun at the Unix Terminal Because it's fun spawning a new process and watching the otherwise idle cores of your box reach 0.1% usage for a millisecond.

nerdponx on April 6, 2017 [–]

Don't all three of those commands spawn new processes?

mfukar on April 6, 2017 | [–]

Not _shell_ processes, no.

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