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Hi,

I am using sudo for moving a tar file from one user to another.  After
moving the file I want to untar it.  However, when I do a "sudo cd
/home/user1/test" I get this error message.

sudo: cd: command not found

All other commands are okay.

Interestingly, there is no man page for cd.  Rather, it is implemented
as a bash command in Redhat Linux.  Could this be the problem?

Whatever the problem, any idea how to fix it?

Thanks.

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Why are you issuing the cd command? Why not sudo <what/I/want/to/do>?
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Yes, it's a bash built-in.

Quote:> Whatever the problem, any idea how to fix it?

Put your commands in a script and start this via sudo, the shell running
it, will be spawned as root shell.

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Well, I wanted to change directories.  However, as you are suggesting,
I figured out another way to do what I wanted.  But, I still want to
be able to cd with sudo.

I thought cd was a unix command? I can't believe Redhat (or whoever)
thought that just replacing a unix command wouldn't have any
side-effects.

No, it's a shell built-in, put your commands in a script and start this
via sudo, you don't read other replies?

Michael Heiming
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Okay.  However, I can't believe that Unix offers a mkdir
command, but doesn't provide a command to change to that dir.

Oh boy.

You have no idea how stupid this looks.

"cd" can NEVER do anything as a separate command. Is it not completely
blazingly obvious to you that it would cd in a SUBSHELL, leaving YOUR
shell completely untouched? There has /never/ been a cd command in
unix, for that same amazingly obvious reason.

No, but your thinking really isn't thinking, is it? It's just
superstition and other untested and unthought through beliefs. Not
thinking at all. Please don't call it that. When you next want to say
"I thought", please don't. Say "I believed", and follow that up
with "but now I see that, having thought it through, my belief was
unfounded and, indeed, mistaken".

Peter

Please don't top post.

Cd is not a UNIX command in any modern variant. It would not work at all
if it were. The shell runs commands as child processes. Child processes
have their own address spaces and can have no effect on their parents'
environments. So if cd were a command, the child process would change to
the new directory and terminate, returning control back to the parent
shell which is waiting for it, leaving the parent shell still in the
directory it started in. So cd has to be a shell builtin running in the
shell's own process. All shells do this, not just bash.

UNIX provides a chdir() system call. This is what the shell uses.

In this respect as in many others Linux is no different to UNIX.

Regards, Ian

On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 at 11:54 GMT, gazing longingly at the horizon,

felt a deep, passionate desire to let the following be known:

[snip "why isn't there a cd command"]

Quote:> Oh boy.

> You have no idea how stupid this looks.

[..]

Quote:> "cd" can NEVER do anything as a separate command. Is it not
> completely blazingly obvious to you that it would cd in a SUBSHELL,
> leaving YOUR shell completely untouched? There has /never/ been a cd
> command in unix, for that same amazingly obvious reason.

> No, but your thinking really isn't thinking, is it? It's just
> superstition and other untested and unthought through beliefs. Not
> thinking at all. Please don't call it that. When you next want to
> say "I thought", please don't. Say "I believed", and follow that up
> with "but now I see that, having thought it through, my belief was
> unfounded and, indeed, mistaken".

Okay, now let's compare that to what another person wrote, in response
to the same article:

-----8<-----
Cd is not a UNIX command in any modern variant. It would not work at
all if it were. The shell runs commands as child processes. Child
processes have their own address spaces and can have no effect on
their parents' environments. So if cd were a command, the child
process would change to the new directory and terminate, returning
control back to the parent shell which is waiting for it, leaving the
parent shell still in the directory it started in. So cd has to be a
shell builtin running in the shell's own process. All shells do this,
not just bash.
----->8-----

You both say, more or less, the same thing, yet one of you seems to go
out of his way to be as offensive and denigrating as humanly possible.

Peter, is there /any/ chance of you not taking out all of your
personal grievances on the poor, unsuspecting public in this news
group who actually ask for advice and do not come here to get publicly
humiliated by your oh-so-superior knowledge?

Just wondering. Thanks.

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It's just your opinion that his post was "offensive".

IMHO we have to respect what others write, there's no problem, correcting
if there's something wrong.

Just moaning about ones writing stile, doesn't help anyone. Usually it ends
up in insulting/kill-filing, which might be entertainment for others while
boosting the stats for people involved.

Wondering, why always our friend Peter T. Breuer, willing to share his deep
*nix knowledge, is *ed? You must be new here...

;)

Michael Heiming
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Yep. Is "denigrating" a word, btw? Oh, I see. Yes it is. Curious. It
looks as though it should not be!

Quote:> Peter, is there /any/ chance of you not taking out all of your
> personal grievances on the poor, unsuspecting public in this news

Hey, he took his grievances out on ME. He viciously attacked RH for
supposedly removing a cd command which he viewed as his right to have,
then he bombarded me with his beliefs, pretending they were facts. He
generally acted pompously and arrogantly, accusing the rest of the
universe of having got it wrong. He dismissed the helpful advice given
him and ignored it at the same time (a neat trick). All in all, he
needed a reality check.

I was happy to give him one.

I figured that ought to get through to him, at least. The original polite
response didn't seem to penetrate his hide.

Quote:> group who actually ask for advice and do not come here to get publicly
> humiliated by your oh-so-superior knowledge?
> Just wondering. Thanks.

I don't have any knowledge.

But nor do I have any beliefs.

Peter

On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 at 14:38 GMT, gazing longingly at the horizon,

felt a deep, passionate desire to let the following be known:

Quote:> It's just your opinion that his post was "offensive".

You have no idea how stupid this looks. ;)

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On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 at 14:45 GMT, gazing longingly at the horizon,

felt a deep, passionate desire to let the following be known:

1) You are not red hat.
2) You are not the focus of people posting to this group.

At least those are my beliefs. You just need to calm down and not take
others (in your opinion) cluelessness personal, that's all.

Quote:> I was happy to give him one.

I wouldn't have spoken up if that was the first time you "gave someone
one".

Anyroads, never mind. As I said, I was just wondering, and I got my
answer. Thanks.

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If you reread the posts, I answered the OPs question, 10h later he
insisted, that 'cd' would be a unix command. Not reading what others
reply, that's what made his post look stupid.

Hopefully, you get it now.
;)

Michael Heiming
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I know I'm not.

Quote:> 2) You are not the focus of people posting to this group.

OK.  I think your country is a sewer, your town is a lice-infested
dogpound, and your house is a disgrace to a romany encampment.  Tell me
when you begin to feel that my "thoughts" ought to be rephrased as
beliefs.

Quote:> At least those are my beliefs. You just need to calm down and not take

That's fair enough. You show balance and perspective.

Quote:> others (in your opinion) cluelessness personal, that's all.
>> I was happy to give him one.
> I wouldn't have spoken up if that was the first time you "gave someone
> one".
> Anyroads, never mind. As I said, I was just wondering, and I got my
> answer. Thanks.
> Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.      Perth ---> *

Quiz. Meetings between the Rev. Canaan Banana and WHO ELSE were always
reported as "fruitful", and why?

Peter