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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: csh core dump  (was: if-then-else in csh alias?)
Message-ID: <6368@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 30-Aug-87 17:59:21 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 30 17:59:21 1987
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
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In article <406@aoa.UUCP> mark@aoa.UUCP (Mark Reynolds) writes:
>On our VAX8650 running Ultrix 2.0-1 the "first" cd command fails with a
>"cannot change to home directory"!

That's because there indeed was no directory x/y.
The mkdir should have made x then x/y, not x then y.