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From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 17:00:41 +0000
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Comments: In reply to "Owen M. Astley" <oma1000@cam.ac.uk>
        "Re: Perl like select()?" (Aug 25,  5:48pm)
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Subject: Re: Perl like select()?
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On Aug 25,  5:48pm, Owen M. Astley wrote:
> Subject: Re: Perl like select()?
> On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Zefram wrote:
> 
> > 	exec > file
> 
> This works in /bin/sh here, but not under zsh
> 
> alpha2----~/tmp% { exec >foo
> cursh> echo bar
> cursh> }
> zsh: command name expected
> 
> So I guess that there is something odd with my setup.  Does anybody
> have any ideas?

My guess would be that you have exec aliased to something.