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To: Josh Howard <jrh@vicor-nb.com>
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Subject: Re: Perl like select()? 
From: Jay Sekora <jay@ccs.neu.edu>
Organization: Northeastern University CCS Systems Group
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 12:26:17 -0400
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> For instance: I have a shell script that I want to 
> simply put ">log.file" at the top, and then start echo'ing and doing
> various output and expect everything to go to log.file, as opposed to
> doing something like "./script.sh >> log.file"

In the Bourne shell, you use "exec" with redirection and no command, 
thusly:

  #!/bin/zsh
  exec > /tmp/foo
  echo this is a test

And empirically, this works in zsh as well (3.0.5), although the section 
on "exec" in zshmisc(1) doesn't seem to imply that it should.

-j.