I was checking running processes for a Python script I created and I saw sh -c python Program.py was running.

What is sh -c and what does it do?

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Reference: sh -

sh just like bash takes a -c switch followed by a command name, with the intent to execute the command and then exit. The remaining text after -c python (here) are parameters provided to python .

So, this is a way to launch python with an "environment" (as provided by sh), similar to starting python manually from sh .

Environment: man bash enter then type /ENV and enter.
(hit n to see next, and p to se previous instances of ENV in the man page)

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