[Gambas-user] Hours of strugglin with EXEC and SHELL

[Benoit Minisini]

On vendredi 25 janvier 2008, M0E Lnx wrote:
> The first gambas application that I wrote uses SHELL a lot... and I
> came to find out that in gambas, the cd command wont do anything...
> Say for instance, you need to first cd to /tmp and then run ls -al.
> This WILL NOT WORK
>
> PUBLIC SUB cdTEST()
> SHELL "cd /tmp"
> SHELL "ls -al"
> END

and THIS IS NORMAL! 

The SHELL instruction runs its argument in a external shell, so two successive 
SHELL calls are completely independant.

Regards,

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Benoit Minisini