Thanks for the answers
this clears things for me :)
thomas
On Oct 9, 8:22 pm, Lee Hambley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It is worth noting for the sake of completeness - although it's more
> of a Bash (or any shell) feature.
>
> That && will execute the following task only if the first one is
> successful.
>
> run "cd /path && ls -al"
>
> Wouldnt' run the ls command if it couldn't changedirectory.. which in
> this instance makes sense, the following would execute the bash
> commands in order until the end of the string.
>
> run "cd /path ; ls -al"
>
> Meaning that you can get away with not being able to changedirectory,
> or something.
>
> run <<-EOB
>
> if [ -d /path ];
> then {
> cd /path;
> ls -al
> }
> fi;
>
> EOB
>
> Not the most useful hack in the world.. but it just ties in with what
> I'm working on on the documentation at the moment - so I mention it
> anyway :)
> On Oct 8, 2:56 pm, Jamis Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Each run() is done in a subshell, so any changes made to your
> > session's state there are lost. Similarly, you cannot set environment
> > variables that you want to persist across run calls, either.
>
> > The way to do this is to execute all the commands together in a single
> > run() invocation:
>
> > run "cd /path && ls -al"
>
> > - Jamis
>
> > On Oct 8, 2008, at 2:45 AM, thomas.mery wrote:
>
> > > Hello all,
>
> > > Maybe this ha been answered before but could not find the solution ...
>
> > > I simply want to changedirectorywithin a task to be able to run a
> > > command in a specificdirectory
>
> > > but it fails ....
>
> > > here is my test task :
>
> > > desc "TEST"
> > > task :test do
>
> > > run "cd /home/myaccount/mydirectory"
> > > run ""ls -al"
>
> > > end
>
> > > the output of the ls command will show the content of my user
> > >directory(the one I access when logging in) but not the content of
> > > thedirectoryI 'cd'ed into (output shows no error when issuing the cd
> > > command)
>
> > > I am probably missing something obvious here but I would really
> > > appreciate any insight :)
>
> > > thanks in advance
>
> > > thomas
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