Stefan Schmidt wrote: > I want to change the working directory and if there is an error (e.g. the > directory doesn't exist) I want that to be logged to a file and printed on > stdout. With the above command that doesn't work since the working directory > is the same as before execution of the command. >
if [ \! -d some_path ] ; then echo There was an error echo There was an error >> log.txt # There must be an intelligent way to combine the above two lines, but I'm not in the mood to discover it right now. exit 1; fi cd some_path Warning: The above may contain bashisms. -- "One Architecture, One OS" also translates as "One Egg, One Basket". Eduardo M KALINOWSKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://move.to/hpkb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
