Re: Manual to cd (change working directory)

2017-12-14 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Benno, the manual page should describe in more detail how exactly PWD and OLDPWD get changed, it is of crucial importance here. Sebastian Benoit wrote on Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 11:14:40PM +0100: > Xcd $@ No doubt you removed the quoting from the Solaris 9 version to evade Copyright issues, rri

Re: Manual to cd (change working directory)

2017-12-14 Thread Sebastian Benoit
Ingo Schwarze(schwa...@usta.de) on 2017.12.14 17:49:35 +0100: > We are actually violating POSIX here: ok to put this in? we can continue working on it in tree # This is a shell archive. Save it in a file, remove anything before # this line, and then unpack it by entering "sh file". Note, it may

Re: Manual to cd (change working directory)

2017-12-14 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Christian, Christian Weisgerber wrote on Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 03:20:22PM -: > On 2017-12-13, Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> That is not a stand-alone command, but a shell built-in. >> Actually, it is not even possible to implement it as a stand-alone >> command because the effect of the intended

Re: Manual to cd (change working directory)

2017-12-14 Thread Erling Westenvik
"This page intentionally left non-blank"? 14. des. 2017 10:26 p.m. skrev "Christian Weisgerber" : On 2017-12-13, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > That is not a stand-alone command, but a shell built-in. > Actually, it is not even possible to implement it as a stand-alone > command because the effect of t

Re: Manual to cd (change working directory)

2017-12-14 Thread Christian Weisgerber
On 2017-12-13, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > That is not a stand-alone command, but a shell built-in. > Actually, it is not even possible to implement it as a stand-alone > command because the effect of the intended change would end when > the command exits. I think there is/was a POSIX requirement, or

Re: Manual to cd (change working directory)

2017-12-14 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi, Dumitru Mișu Moldovan wrote on Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 09:42:57AM +0200: > La 13.12.2017 23:36, Niels Kobschaetzki a scris: >> On Linux the man page for bash opens, > Not necessarily true, on my Hardened Gentoo this is the first page of > what I get for "man cd" (sorry for the wrapping): > > C

Re: Manual to cd (change working directory)

2017-12-14 Thread Freddy Fisker
Thank you for the advice. I understand to use the ksh manual instead. Best regards Freddy

Re: Manual to cd (change working directory)

2017-12-13 Thread Dumitru Mișu Moldovan
La 13.12.2017 23:36, Niels Kobschaetzki a scris: […] > On Linux the man page for bash opens, […] Not necessarily true, on my Hardened Gentoo this is the first page of what I get for "man cd" (sorry for the wrapping): CD(1P) POSIX Programmer's Manual CD(1P) PROLOG

Re: Manual to cd (change working directory)

2017-12-13 Thread x9p
On Wed, December 13, 2017 9:24 pm, edgar wrote: > > > I'm going to start an openbsd blog with nothing but ingo misc@ posts. > +1. I also felt some enlightenment reading his answer. cheers. -- x9p | PGP : 0x03B50AF5EA4C8D80 / 5135 92C1 AD36 5293 2BDF DDCC 0DFA 74AE 1524 E7EE

Re: Manual to cd (change working directory)

2017-12-13 Thread edgar
I'm going to start an openbsd blog with nothing but ingo misc@ posts. > > On Dec 13, 2017 at 3:52 PM,wrote: > > > Hi Freddy, Freddy Fisker wrote on Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 10:22:32PM +0100: > > I can't get the manual to the cd (change working directory) command. That

Re: Manual to cd (change working directory)

2017-12-13 Thread Klemens Nanni
On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 10:22:32PM +0100, Freddy Fisker wrote: > Hi > > I can't get the manual to the cd (change working directory) command. When I > am trying, I get the manual to cd (ATAPI and SCSI CD-ROM driver) instead. > > It's the same with: man cd > > and in: https://man.openbsd.org/cd Th

Re: Manual to cd (change working directory)

2017-12-13 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Freddy, Freddy Fisker wrote on Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 10:22:32PM +0100: > I can't get the manual to the cd (change working directory) command. That is not a stand-alone command, but a shell built-in. Actually, it is not even possible to implement it as a stand-alone command because the effect o

Re: Manual to cd (change working directory)

2017-12-13 Thread Niels Kobschaetzki
On 17/12/13 22:22, Freddy Fisker wrote: I can't get the manual to the cd (change working directory) command. When I am trying, I get the manual to cd (ATAPI and SCSI CD-ROM driver) instead. It's the same with: man cd and in: https://man.openbsd.org/cd cd is a built-in in a shell. So, you n

Re: Manual to cd (change working directory)

2017-12-13 Thread Theo Buehler
On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 10:22:32PM +0100, Freddy Fisker wrote: > Hi > > I can't get the manual to the cd (change working directory) command. When I > am trying, I get the manual to cd (ATAPI and SCSI CD-ROM driver) instead. > > It's the same with: man cd > > and in: https://man.openbsd.org/cd T

Manual to cd (change working directory)

2017-12-13 Thread Freddy Fisker
Hi I can't get the manual to the cd (change working directory) command. When I am trying, I get the manual to cd (ATAPI and SCSI CD-ROM driver) instead. It's the same with: man cd and in: https://man.openbsd.org/cd Best regards Freddy