Re: Hiding a process
In article <[🔎] 20020415063651.GA28657@calico.local>,
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net> wrote:
>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,
Because POSIX/SuS do not define any flags for the 'exec' command.
'exec -a' is a bash specific extension.
Mike.
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