On Jan 7, Families Laws said:

>I tried to do a change directory and then do a tar of
>the directory:

Use the chdir() function.

>  system("cd /usr/apps");

That creates a new shell, exectes 'cd /usr/apps', and then closes the
shell.  End result:  you've moved nowhere.

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