What bash manual? Do you mean 'man bash' or is there some other doco?

Wayne
PS I have 25 used old cd's for the meeting. Howmany are you after? I could ask at work for more. Pity I threw 500 CDs & cases away recently (stupid me did not think to re-use cases).

>Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 09:53:04 +0800 (WST)
> Mike Holland <myk@golden.wattle.id.au> <plug@plug.linux.org.au> Re: [plug] bash: making cd persist after script has runReply-To: plug@plug.linux.org.au
>
>On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Colin Muller wrote:
>
>> > I can really recommend reading the bash manual. There are so many useful
>> > things like that to discover.
>>
>> Point taken - I'd done a man bash (sounds like violence GBH) but had
>
>That wasnt an "RTFM". For a lot of programs, it makes sense to just use
>the manuals just for reference. But the shell is a special case that
>deserves cover-to-cover reading, even if you have been using it for years.
>
>> somehow missed this. Thanks to you and all the others for three quite
>> different approaches, all enlightening, and all of which achieve what
>> I'm after.
>
>But which is best? :-)
>
>-- 
>  "For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings.
>   And folks, this is unacceptable in America. It's just unacceptable. And
>   we're going to do something about it."   -- George W. Bush, 14/5/01




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