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Re: chere doesn't cd to directory


--- "John Morrison (Cygwin)" <john@morrison.mine.nu> wrote:

> On Sat, March 5, 2005 9:25 am, Dave said:
> > --- Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Dave wrote:
> >> > The cd occurs in /etc/profile for bash, ash, and pdksh; /etc/zprofile
> >> > for zsh; /etc/csh.login for tcsh.
> >
> >> I don't recall if this was part of the discussion, but any particular
> >> reason you're not doing this in a /etc/profile.d script instead?  That
> >> way, it would work even with a custom /etc/profile.
> >
> > I honestly hadn't thought of that... and I don't recall it being
> > mentioned.
> >
> > The issue is that chere wants to stop the standard login script from doing
> > the
> > usual cd $(HOME). The profile.d scripts get run before the cd, and hence
> > th cd
> > happens anyway. If the order were changed, we'd have lost the directory we
> > wanted anyway.
> >
> > The 'cd $(HOME)' could be removed from /etc/profile, but then the
> > profile.d
> > script would be required even when chere were not installed.
> 
> Not if there was a script called (something like)...
> 
> 00cd.sh
> 
> included in the base-files which just did a cd $HOME.  As long as the
> chere script was after this one it should cd $HOME then cd $CHERE...
> thoughts?

This is OK as long as 00cd.sh does the full chere incantation, otherwise we lose
the directory we want to go to.


Dave.

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