Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: net.unix,net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: arguments for a command file Message-ID: <6776@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Wed, 26-Dec-84 00:45:26 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.6776 Posted: Wed Dec 26 00:45:26 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Dec-84 05:41:58 EST References: <2650@dartvax.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 3 The effect of "cd" cannot be exported outside the shell script to the invoker of the script. That is why "cd" is a shell built-in instead of an executable command in /bin.