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Re: BUG: cd '' doesn't produce an error

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From: Wayne Davison <wayned@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Ulrik Haugen <qha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: BUG: cd '' doesn't produce an error
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 09:32:39 -0800
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On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 08:28:41AM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote:
> The documentation claims that this error should cause the shell to
> exit, but in my testing it did not do so without the err_exit option
> also being set.

It was silly of me to not notice that the reason for this was that the
error was occurring in a subshell (inside the backticks), so that
subshell was exiting, not the main shell.

..wayne..

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