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Old 05-27-2009
samplify samplify is offline
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Hi,

This is a quick one.
I have got a review comment in one of the scripts that i wrote:

"In UNIX script it not advisable to use cd to a directory and then run command."

Is this true?
I was trying to cd to log directory and use some cat or head or ls command.

Many Thanks,
Sam