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June 2008



Why doesn't pushd popd work in my Ubuntu shell script?

2008.06.26 Thu 9:42 P GMT-07
I'm in the process of moving over to my new laptop. I run into an issue where a shell script (that worked under gentoo) now no longer works. Here's the error foo.sh: 18: pushd: not found Since I'm running this as sh foo.sh, I turn on debugging wit
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New lappy, Lenovo T61p (linux edition)

2008.06.26 Thu 9:30 P GMT-07
My trusty r52 switches between a state of 100-200 free megs of memory and no memory on the 40 gig hard drive. Rather than investing in an expensive IBM harddrive (I've heard the BIOS on my machine won't take normal OEM drives), I got a new computer.