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Re: changing directory
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 05:19:53PM +0200, Mikael Djurfeldt wrote:
> Olivier Buechel <Olivier.Buechel@unifr.ch> writes:
>
> > This may be more scheme than guile;
> > When i do a systemcall (system "wget www.xy.zz") the file wget will
> > download will be saved in the current shell directory
> > i.e. (system "pwd"). How can i change my current directory?
>
> (chdir "xxx")
>
> > I tried
> > (system "cd /home/buechel/download") but this has not changed. What
> > does it do then?
>
> It changes the directory in the subshell which Guile has started.
I thought that (system ...) forks and execs another shell each time it
is evaluated, which too explains this "wrong" behavior.
--
Ivan Toshkov