Hi all, Yesterday I was writing a simple script which when run, would create a directory with today's date and then would take you to the created dir.Atfirst I thought it will be easy but the 'finding yourself in the new directory after running the script' part didn't work out.The script I wrote is as follows:
#!/bin/sh cd DIR=`date --iso` mkdir `date --iso` cd "$DIR" This did create a directory but I wasn't taken to it.After a bit of experimenting I found out that adding /bin/sh at the end (ie opening any subshell) does the work. My question is why does the script work this way?Is there any other way to do this? Sushant. -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
