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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 18:08:06 +0100 (BST)
From: "Owen M. Astley" <oma1000@cam.ac.uk>
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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
> 
> My guess would be that you have exec aliased to something.

Ahhhh.  Yes, I wrote a function called exec() so that I didn't
try to execute non-existent commands by mistake!

Thanks
Owen