Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <3BC5AF9B.5090003@earthlink.net> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 09:41:31 -0500 From: Jonathon Merz Reply-To: jmerz42 AT earthlink DOT net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010913 X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Cygwin/Bash: Some builtins done work in scripts References: <3BB9087F000058DB AT mail DOT epost DOT de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Rainer Klute wrote: > Hi, > > I hope you are the right one to report a bug to I just encountered in Cygwin's > bash: The builtins pushd, popd and dirs don't work when I use them in a > script file. The error message is e.g. "pushd: not found". Other builtins, > like "cd" work in scripts. At the tty the faulty builtins works fine. Its > just in scripts. (Needless to say that under Unix (Linux) the buildins work > in scripts.) > > I am using Cygwin 1.3.2-1 and bash 2.05-6. The version number I extracted > from the setup.log. Make sure that you have #!/usr/bin/bash on the first line of your script. I think that if you don't specifically use bash, scripts will be executed using sh, which does not have pushd, popd, or dirs as builtins. The following script works fine for me, but if I change the 'bash' to 'sh' or remove the line all together, I get the "not found" errors. #!/usr/bin/bash pwd pushd . dirs cd winnt pwd dirs popd -- ------------------------------------- If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/