From: wkm <wiktor@...>
Date: 2009-11-11T11:17:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Is it a bug?exec "cd"

'cd' isn't actually a program. (typically; OS X seems to have it setup as a super obscure shell script)

Note:

> [wkm@zanoccio ~]$ which cd
> /usr/bin/which: no cd in (/usr/kerberos/bin://bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/home/wiktor/bin)

It's one of the interpreted commands of the shell you're using.

>---- Original Message ----
>From: Haoqi Haoqi <axgle@126.com>
>To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML)
>Sent: Tue, Nov 10, 2009, 19:52 PM
>Subject: Is it a bug?exec "cd"
>
>$ cat into.rb
>exec "cd /tmp"
>$ ruby into.rb
>into.rb:1:in `exec': No such file or directory - cd /tmp (Errno::ENOENT)
>  from into.rb:1
>---------------------
>exec "cd anything" as the same result error.how to exec "cd"?thanks
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