Re: bash Shell behaving weird

From: Barry Margolin (barry.margolin_at_level3.com)
Date: 04/29/03 

Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 14:35:24 GMT

In article <d58bb977.0304290633.4fc6f6ac@posting.google.com>,
Raymond Tan <raymond_tan@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Hi,
> I wrote a simple shell script to goto a project directory but
>when i execute the script it didn't change the directory. I can
>manually change the directory in the terminal command prompt.
>Any ideas what going on with the unix shell ?

Read the comp.unix.questions FAQ for the explanation of why programs can't
change the calling shell's directory. 

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