Re: cd /xxx && rm *

[Chet Ramey]

> I found that sh and ksh return 1 on bad  cd, but bash returns 0.
> So bash : cd /xxx && rm *   - will remove everything in your current

Not true.

caleb.INS.CWRU.Edu(1)$ cd /xxx
-bash: cd: /xxx: No such file or directory
caleb.INS.CWRU.Edu(1)$ echo $?
1

You probably have a shell function for cd that returns success
unconditionally.

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