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Date:	Thu, 08 Jul 2004 13:21:52 -0400
From:	"Michael D. Crawford" <crawford AT goingware DOT com>
Subject:	Re: "cd" in bash script not being executed
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 > the script fails to change directory.

Just to make sure, put the following on the line after #!/bin/bash

set -x

and then before and after the line with the cd command:

pwd

Are you sure it's not changing directory, or could something else be going wrong?

Mike
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