Thank you. That makes sense. So basically the empty file is seen by the shell as a "script" that has to be evaluated, so a separate shell process is spun up to

Thank you. That makes sense. So basically the empty file is seen by the shell as a "script" that has to be evaluated, so a separate shell process is spun up to handle it? And the difference between my output and the parent's has to do with some difference in our environments?