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From: random832@fastmail.com (Random832)
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 00:09:13 -0400
Subject: [TUHS] Shell control through external commands
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On Thu, Jul 14, 2016, at 23:59, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2016, Random832 wrote:
> 
> > My Mac even has /usr/bin/cd.
> 
> After which, of course, the shell returns to where it was...  Or does
> it do a getcwd() after each command or something?

The existence of cd as a real command is a bit silly (Ubuntu doesn't
seem to bother with it), but it is technically required by the standard.