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Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:20:40 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net>
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Subject: Re: newbie question -- problem with launching shell script files
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Alexey Illarionov wrote:

> I wrote a small script. Here is the content of the 'run.sh'
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> cd /cygdrive/c
> 
> Unfortunately, it does not work. The command './run.sh' does nothing.

Let's back up a moment.  What do you expect the above script to actually
do?  Nothing is the proper and expected behavior -- there is no way for
a child process to change the CWD of the parent so if you are expecting
the CWD to be different after running the script then you have a
misunderstanding of how scripting works.  If you want to affect things
like the CWD or environment of the current process, you can't do it by
invoking a child, you must source the contents of the script in the
current process.

Brian

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