[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> i would differ.

Free to.

> what is the purpose of Lakshmi creating a child shell by giving /bin/sh
> and coming out without doing anything there?

He would know the purpose best. I told him what would happen if he did
what he did by ./script.

> i guess that he wants to "cd /usr/local" in the new child shell.

He also might want to prepare tea for all of us [yawn].

> how to do THAT?

To call a new shell and affect commands in that? Call the shell manually
and then call script. Like

/bin/bash script

Then it will execute in /bin/bash.

Rohit

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