[Gllug] Why does this script not work?

Nix nix at esperi.demon.co.uk
Mon Dec 10 22:03:26 UTC 2001


On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Vincent AE Scott uttered the following:
> Colin Murphy(colin at ql4ever.demon.co.uk)@Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 10:16:42AM +0000:
>> How do I set my current directory to that set in the script.
> 
> append :
> exec /bin/bash
> 
> is one option.

This would give you a new subshell every time you ran that script; if it
was used anything like `cd', you'd end up with about a hundred million
subshells to exit back out of.

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