Re: changing current dir and executing a shell script

Subject	Re: changing current dir and executing a shell script
From	Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org>
Date	2011-05-28 17:52 -0400
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On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 09:41 +0200, Peter Otten wrote:
> > You don't want to do this because "cd" is a built-in shell command,
> and
> > subprocess does not execute within a shell (by default).
> 
> The problem is not that cd is built-in, but that there is no shell at
> all. 
> You can change that with shell=True: 

This is exactly what I said, but using different words.

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changing current dir and executing a shell script suresh <suresh.amritapuri@gmail.com> - 2011-05-27 14:25 -0700
  Re: changing current dir and executing a shell script Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@thorstenkampe.de> - 2011-05-28 00:18 +0200
  Re: changing current dir and executing a shell script Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org> - 2011-05-27 18:19 -0400
    Re: changing current dir and executing a shell script Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2011-05-28 09:41 +0200
      Re: changing current dir and executing a shell script Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org> - 2011-05-28 17:52 -0400

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