---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Feb 25, 2006 12:22 AM Subject: Re: exec, stdin, stdout, stderr To: Andrew Cady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > I think I understand most of it but can't figure out what `exec` > > called without any arguments will do. Does it simply replace the > > shell with a copy of itself? > > $ help exec > exec: exec [-cl] [-a name] file [redirection ...] > Exec FILE, replacing this shell with the specified program. > If FILE is not specified, the redirections take effect in this > shell. If the first argument is `-l', then place a dash in the Not sure how I missed that in the man page. Thanks --Dave
