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Operating Systems HP-UX Why Bash is not working in HP-UX ? Post 302443245 by methyl on Saturday 7th of August 2010 07:01:22 PM
Old 08-07-2010
The default Shell (/usr/bin/sh) with HP-UX is pretty close to full Posix. It is not a Bourne Shell. However the command recall with arrow keys seems impossible to get working.
Other correspondents may have a solution ....

Last edited by methyl; 08-07-2010 at 08:02 PM.. Reason: typo
 

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cd(1T)							       Tcl Built-In Commands							    cd(1T)

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NAME
cd - Change working directory SYNOPSIS
cd ?dirName? _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION
Change the current working directory to dirName, or to the home directory (as specified in the HOME environment variable) if dirName is not given. Returns an empty string. Note that the current working directory is a per-process resource; the cd command changes the working directory for all interpreters and (in a threaded environment) all threads. EXAMPLES
Change to the home directory of the user fred: cd ~fred Change to the directory lib that is a sibling directory of the current one: cd ../lib SEE ALSO
filename(1T), glob(1T), pwd(1T) KEYWORDS
working directory ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +--------------------+-----------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Availability | SUNWTcl | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Interface Stability | Uncommitted | +--------------------+-----------------+ NOTES
Source for Tcl is available on http://opensolaris.org. Tcl cd(1T)
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