Basic Shell script question

absolsp_at_yahoo.com
Date: 03/24/05 

Date: 23 Mar 2005 23:15:37 -0800

I have Solaris 9 installed and using a simple shell script.

#!/bin/sh

echo "Begin"
cd /nonexistent/directory
echo "end"

The second echo does not print, the cd command fails and quits the
script. Is this normal behaviour for shell scripts. I ran the script
in Red Hat 9.0 and it worked fine, the cd command printed an error and
the echo command also got executed.

Is this a bug in Solaris shell or a documented behaviour.

thx,
Ab

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