I suppose it depends what the cd in the script is for. If it is intended that this sets up the user environment and leaves them (or the calling script) in the correct directory, then you will need to call it in to overwrite your current environment. For many shells (sh, bash, ksh, etc.) this is done as follows:-
For a csh call, it is:
You are correct that you need the execute permission on a directory to cd to it, so if I have missed the point, please let me know.
Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK
P.S. You don't have any 3rd party security software installed do you? Some of the very good ones will manage file/directory access as though they were assets to be protected. You would need a specific rule to allow you to do this. Can you supply the simplest example with the error and an ls -ld of the directory?
Whenever I relaunch my terminal application on Mac OS 10.4.6, the shell changes to something different. E.g. I used to work in "sh" and then relaunch, I am suddenly in "bash" mode and none of the most basic commands work anymore. Why can't the unix community agree on one single type of shell?? As... (1 Reply)
Using Solaris CDE environment and want to write a shell script (pref. Korn) which can:
Upon invokation opens a dtterm new window (no problems, here, i.e. on how to open one)
The new dtterm should be moved by the script to another workspace (consider no one changed the default Solaris naming... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have a shell script in which I need to switch to another user and execute some commands and then come back to the original user.
To make it more clear -
I have to log in as user root then 'su' to jag - execute a script called backup.sh and then logout and come back to root again..
... (1 Reply)
Dear All,
I want to switch a user inside a shell script.My current user say x and user y to whom i want to switch both have login on the same server,the one on which i want to execute my script on.
"I want to do something like this
su - y
Password should be provided in the script itself.And... (6 Replies)
Linux version : Oracle Linux 6.4
Shell : Bash
The following script will be run as root. During the execution, it should switch to oracle user and execute few commands.
After googling and searching within unix.com , I came up with the following syntax
## Enclosing all commands in double... (7 Replies)
I need a script which should watch a directory for a file with specific directory.
If it finds a file in directory, it should search for few specific keyword in the file. if the keyword exists, it should trim string from specific column.
The file should be moved to another directory and the a... (8 Replies)
Requirement: I am writing a shell script which take some file from say Server1 and I have to execute some command on Server2 then I have to manipulate the data and based on that I have to produce report.
Problem:I can schedule the shell script on only one server (Server1 or Server2) So, In the... (3 Replies)
Hi,
Could you please assist how to move the gz files which are older than the 90 days from one folder to another folder ,before that it need to check the file system named "nfs" if size is less than 90 or not. If size is above 90 then it shouldn't perform file move and exit the script throwing... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I am having issues with the jar -tf command when I put in the shell script.
The command runs fine from the command line as shown below.
# jar -tf "./VirtualBox Dropped Files/2016-04-17T20:58:49.129139000Z/hive-exec-0.8.1.jar"
But when I put in a shell script(shown below) and the... (10 Replies)
I have a script, which is checking if file exists and move it to another directory
if
then
mkdir -p ${LOCL_FILES_DIR}/cool_${Today}/monthly
mv report_manual_alloc_rpt_A_I_ASSIGNMENT.${Today}*.csv ${LOCL_FILES_DIR}/cool_${Today}/monthly
... (9 Replies)
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atf-sh
ATF-SH(1) BSD General Commands Manual ATF-SH(1)NAME
atf-sh [-s shell] -- interpreter for shell-based test programs
SYNOPSIS
atf-sh script
DESCRIPTION
atf-sh is an interpreter that runs the test program given in script after loading the atf-sh(3) library.
atf-sh is not a real interpreter though: it is just a wrapper around the system-wide shell defined by ATF_SHELL. atf-sh executes the inter-
preter, loads the atf-sh(3) library and then runs the script. You must consider atf-sh to be a POSIX shell by default and thus should not
use any non-standard extensions.
The following options are available:
-s shell Specifies the shell to use instead of the value provided by ATF_SHELL.
ENVIRONMENT
ATF_LIBEXECDIR Overrides the builtin directory where atf-sh is located. Should not be overridden other than for testing purposes.
ATF_PKGDATADIR Overrides the builtin directory where libatf-sh.subr is located. Should not be overridden other than for testing purposes.
ATF_SHELL Path to the system shell to be used in the generated scripts. Scripts must not rely on this variable being set to select a
specific interpreter.
EXAMPLES
Scripts using atf-sh(3) should start with:
#! /usr/bin/env atf-sh
Alternatively, if you want to explicitly choose a shell interpreter, you cannot rely on env(1) to find atf-sh. Instead, you have to hardcode
the path to atf-sh in the script and then use the -s option afterwards as a single parameter:
#! /path/to/bin/atf-sh -s/bin/bash
ENVIRONMENT
ATF_SHELL Path to the system shell to be used in the generated scripts.
SEE ALSO atf-sh(3)BSD September 27, 2014 BSD