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, as the functionality is available from the underlying family of C system calls... -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
