Re: [PLUG] pushd and popd on debian squeeze

[Douglas Muth <doug.muth@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Michael Lazin <microlaser@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I am trying to run a bash script on debian squeeze that uses pushd and
> popd.  They are not in the path and when I got to the root directory as root
> and type "find -name pushd" nothing comes up.  Why are these missing from
> debian?  How can I get them?

They're shell commands.  Make sure your script starts with:

#!/bin/bash

and NOT:

#!/bin/sh

While sh is usually symlinked to bash, if it's run as sh, it will
emulate the Bourne Shell, and bash-specific commands like pushd and
popd will not be available.

-- Doug
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