Quote: in UNIX, shell and executable programs appear to be invoked the same; a child process runs executable programs

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If the first argument [of a UNIX shell command] names a file … a new (child) process that immediately executes that … it is assumed to be a command file … From the user's viewpoint, executable programs and shell …   Google-1   Google-2

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