What happens when you open a terminal and enter ‘ls’

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What happens when you open a terminal and enter ‘ls’
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Interesting read, thanks for posting. I hadn't considered how predictive text works in a terminal emulator and its cool to see how that works as well as getting a better understanding of child processes and what commands would/wouldn't start one

Unix loves to fork processes. So you get lots and lots of processes.

Only system I've used that loves processes more than Unix is Erlang