Re: [MACTCL] os x command shell from tcl

[Christopher S. M. <mor...@AR...>]

Same thing should happen on other systems as well, if I'm not mistaken
(e.g. linux).  At least same failure happens on my linux boxes.  That's
because cd is a shell-built-in command for most shells and, more
importantly (I assume), because thereis not an actual "cd" command (e.g.
`which cd` returns a not found). Just type 'cd' without the exec and it
should work just fine. Same with ls, pwd, etc and the rest of the usual
shell-built-in commands.  Unless I just missed what you were saying
altogether.. 

Cheers!


On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Robert Coldwell wrote:

> How would one do the "cd" command to the OS X command shell from TCL and
> get it to work? This is what I put and what I get back:
> 
> () 2 % exec cd /bin
> couldn't execute "cd": no such file or directory
> 
> Doing "ls" works fine. It seems to me there is something about keeping
> the communication open that is not happening. What it seems to do is just
> "send data" and "retreive data." Any suggestions?
> 
> If I can get this to work it will lead into more questions I'm sure. Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Robert Coldwell