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From: chet.ramey@case.edu (Chet Ramey)
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 09:55:16 -0400
Subject: [TUHS] Shell control through external commands
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On 7/14/16 11:59 PM, 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?

Consider something like `find . -type d -exec cd {} \;' to test for
directory search permission.  That's the only use I've ever seen advocated.


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