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Subject: EXEC peculiarities
From: "Jay Guerette" <JayGuerette@pobox.com>
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I am a recent convert from Bash, and I'm confused about the behavior of
the 'exec' builtin. (zsh 4.2.0 on Linux)

#! /bin/bash
EXEC='/sbin/ifconfig eth0'
exec $EXEC

returns the expected output; the configuration of eth0

#! /bin/zsh
EXEC='/sbin/ifconfig eth0'
exec $EXEC

returns: "no such file or directory: /sbin/ifconfig eth0"

#! /bin/zsh
EXEC='/sbin/ifconfig'
ARGS='eth0'
exec $EXEC $ARGS

however, again works as expected

Am I doing something wrong? Why does the 2nd example fail?