On Sun, 2017-02-19 at 05:22 -0800, Mike Wright wrote: > Hi all, > > My brain cell ran away from home. I have an incredibly simple script > that doesn't do what I expect. I use "mkdir DIR; cd DIR" a lot so I'm > trying to put it in a script: "~/bin/mdcd". > > After checking that $1 exists: > > dir="$1" > mkdir -p "$dir" > cd "$dir" <------ never executes > > The directory is created so there is no error there. > > Huh? Insight anyone? If it's a Shell script then it's executing in a sub-shell, which then terminates, so the current directory of the calling Shell is unchanged. To get the effect you want either use an alias or call "eval". poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
