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From: billw@igloo.UUCP (Bill Wisner)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: sh bug
Message-ID: <318@igloo.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Nov-87 23:23:11 EST
Article-I.D.: igloo.318
Posted: Wed Nov 11 23:23:11 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Nov-87 02:44:42 EST
References: <467@virginia.acc.virginia.edu> <706@its63b.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: billw@igloo.UUCP (Bill Wisner)
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In article <706@its63b.ed.ac.uk> simon@its63b.ed.ac.uk (Simon Brown) writes:
>Dat's 'cos the first cd fails, so the shell interrupts itself (well, sort of),
>and jumps straight back to command level - without executing the second part of
>the "||". What you'll have to do is force the first component to be executed
>in a subshell so it can't effect the second - like
[example using (cd nowhere) deleted]

Sorry, I'm afraid not. Doing a cd in a subshell will do absolutely no good.
The subshell will change directories, but immediately afterwards it will exit,
leaving the original shell back where it started.
-- 
Bill Wisner				..{codas,ihnp4}!ddsw1!igloo!billw
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