On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 08:21:52PM -0700, Dan Wilder wrote: > I've recently upgraded a number of systems to debian-woody, current > as of a couple of days ago, and run into a bug or a new feature > (I hope not) in bash-2.05.0(1) or some related library. This new > feature confounds an untold number of shell scripts. > > The bash "cd" builtin now apparently echos its new CWD to standard out. > It did not do this, at least as of version 2.01.1(1) as found in > debian-slink. > > If I have a directory named "test", > > #!/bin/sh > cd test > > in a script produces: > > /home/dan/test > > as its output. Well, that's OK, I don't really need the extra > screen noise, but I can live with it. <snip>
> Is this a feature? Am I going to have to re-write all shell scripts > that assume a silent "cd" operation, or replace the stock build of > bash with a local build? Or switch to writing all scripts in csh? > > Hoping somebody can furnish some insight. All I can tell you is I'm running 2.05.0(1) on an LFS system and can't replicate the behavior you are describing. I compiled it from source with a standard - ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-curses && make && make install hth, kent
