[plug] bash bodgy

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Sat Jun 5 20:29:38 WST 2004


James Devenish wrote:

| and then have the parent shell then 'cd' to the desired directory
| (because no child process can do this on behalf any parent
| process*).
[...]
| * I'm assume there are some non-portable exceptions to this ;-)

It works on MS-DOS, which has a system-wide rather than per-process
notion on current directory :-)  I wonder if it works on Windows too...

Cameron.




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