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From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: pwd?
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Date: 18 Apr 91 20:41:32 GMT
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merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
>Unless you're willing to stat a lot of directories, the fastest way is:
>
>	chop($path = `cd $name && pwd`);

I have never seen a shell that treated cd properly with respect
to && and ||. Try "cd /bogon || echo failed".

However, the example you give does leave $path with nothing,
so perhaps it "works" after all.
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