On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 08:00:12AM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net> wrote: > >On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 11:55:43PM -0500, Daniel DiPaolo wrote: > >> On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 20:15, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > >> > > exec -a $NAME $COMMAND $ARGS > >> > > >> > exec -a /sbin/getty 31337r007k17 -destroyeverything > >> > >> Note that this is a shell specific thing (doesn't work in zsh, and I > >> can't find the equivalent in the zsh man pages). > >> > >> Works fine in bash though :) > > > >AFAIK, it's a Bourne Shell builtin which is generally the only portable > >shell scripting language. I don't know why zsh wouldn't support it, > > Because POSIX/SuS do not define any flags for the 'exec' command. > 'exec -a' is a bash specific extension.
Ahh. It's listed under the Bourne shell compatible builtins in the Bash manpage and I didn't see a mention there that it was a Bash extension. Don't have copies of POSIX/SuS documents to go through myself... -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
