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"Mark J. Reed" <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:45:28 -0500
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On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Stockly, Ed <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Either file not found or directory not found.

That sounds like you're giving it a relative path.

>>>What directory do they change to to fix it?
>
> He says he uses cld for change local directory... What's the difference
> between that and cd?

I was more interested in the target of the command than the command
itself, but I've never heard of a shell command called "cld".  "lcd"
in FTP clients, sure...

> This command coerces an alias to a file on the local drive to a posix path.
> Does that make it absolute?

It depends on the alias.  Try logging the path - it should start with
a /.  If not, that's your problem.

> Something like this.... ?  Or maybe the /usr/bin go before the cd?

No, /usr/bin/curl is just telling the shell where to find the curl
program.  cd is not a program the shell has to run - it's a command
built into the shell itself.

-- 
Mark J. Reed <[log in to unmask]>

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