"Stefan Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>Hello,

>if I pipe the output of a cd command the working directory doesn't change.

That's because all elements of a pipeline except the last are run in
different processes to the main shell that starts the pipeline. As such,
the cd command is running in a subshell which exits when cd exits. This
has no effect on your main shell, which will keep the original working
directory.


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