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| author | Peter Stephenson <pws@users.sourceforge.net> | 2007-05-08 10:02:58 +0000 |
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| committer | Peter Stephenson <pws@users.sourceforge.net> | 2007-05-08 10:02:58 +0000 |
| commit | 8ce657c2cbbd194532be36343fd7f1882513541e (patch) | |
| tree | 6f40e8283b1bb6bf202bec586fcf3c21e09c3cba /README | |
| parent | e4cdad9700342b4dbc1837307580134eee274f33 (diff) | |
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Phil Pennock + tweaks: 23398 + more tweaks: exec compatibility options
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diff --git a/README b/README index e01bc81ec..94ba2236c 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -40,6 +40,14 @@ behaviour.) Now it is treated identically to "$@". The same change applies to expressions with forced splitting such as ${=1+"$@"}, but otherwise the case where SH_WORD_SPLIT is not set is unaffected. +The "exec" precommand modifier now takes various options for compatibility +with other shells. This means that whereas "exec -prog" previously +tried to execute a command name "-prog", it will now report an error +in option handling. "exec -- -prog" will execute "-prog". If +the option EQUALS is set, as it is by default in zsh's native mode, +"exec =-prog" behaves the same way in all versions of zsh provided +the command can be found. + The "unset" builtin now does not regard the unsetting of non-existent variables as an error, so can still return status 0 (depending on the handling of other arguments). This appears to be the standard shell |