From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: dnied@tiscali.it (Dario Niedermann)
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 09:45:08 +0200
Subject: [TUHS] Shell control through external commands
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Message-ID: <20160910074508.GE5970@dnied%tiscali.it>

Il 15/07/2016 alle 14:27, Norman Wilson ha scritto:

> Just for the record, Fedora 21 supplies /bin/cd, as part
> of package bash-4.3.42-1.  Interestingly, it is a shell
> script:
> 
> lu$ cat /bin/cd
> #!/bin/sh
> builtin cd "$@"
> lu$ 

But doesn't this change the current dir only in the child shell?
Which then exits right after the second line, parent shell's $PWD
unaffected. I really don't see how this script is useful.