Chain loading cheatsheet

run scripts conventionally use simple tools, that chain load from one tool to the next, to set up a dæmon's process state. There is quite a large toolset available for this. These are just some of most widely used chain loading commands.

For exposition, each command here omits the trailing argument vector, which is the rest of the commands to chain to. That is determined by the script as a whole. In a script interpreted by nosh or Laurent Bercot's execlineb, one could (for readability) place these commands on individual lines. In a POSIX-conformant shell script, these would have to be all on a single logical line (possibly comprising multiple physical lines joined by backslashed newlines).