Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!rbj From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: pwd? Message-ID: <130090@uunet.UU.NET> Date: 23 Apr 91 03:03:28 GMT References: <1991Apr17.165554.16507@iwarp.intel.com> <129476@uunet.UU.NET> Organization: UUNET Communications Services, Falls Church, VA Lines: 17 In urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) writes: ?In comp.lang.perl, article <129476@uunet.UU.NET>, ? rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) writes: ?< ?< I have never seen a shell that treated cd properly with respect ?< to && and ||. Try "cd /bogon || echo failed". ? ?Perhaps you should look at bash. Or the latest ksh. Which version of ksh? And I may never use bash. I'd like to, but it just doesn't work. And on a Sparc running 4.1.1, no less. "history" core dumps. Things are no better than they were years ago. -- [rbj@uunet 1] stty sane unknown mode: sane