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From: Carlo Strozzi <carlos@texne.com>
To: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: bug?
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 05:55:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010528115508.G4481@tango.texne.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010528074702.4737.qmail@mailhost.aus.deuba.com>; from russell.davies@db.com on Mon, May 28, 2001 at 03:47:00AM -0500

On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 03:47:00AM -0500, Russell Davies wrote:
| 
| ; mkdir $HOME/e
| ; cdpath=$HOME
| ; cd /
| ; cd e
| /home/blah/e
| 
| ok, all is well. Suppose now I want to suppress the output of the cd e.
| 
| ; cd /
| ; cd e >/dev/null
| ; pwd
| /

I believe the '>' redirection causes cd to be executed in a subshell,
and when the latter dies so does the cd effect.

bye,
carlo
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Carlo Strozzi
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-05-28 19:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-28  8:47 bug? Russell Davies
2001-05-28 10:55 ` Carlo Strozzi [this message]
2001-05-28 15:20 ` bug? Paul Haahr
2001-05-28 17:20 bug? Byron Rakitzis

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