Re: pwd & cd

[Joaquim Luis]

John W. Eaton wrote
> 
> On 22-Nov-2011, Joaquim Luis wrote:
> 
> | That's what I was afraid!
> 
> Why, what is the problem?  I think most Unix shells have the same
> behavior as Octave, in which cd with no arguments changes to the home
> directory.
> 
> Also, if you have a program that does
> 
>   dir = cd;
> 
> Octave will return the current directory and not change it, so I think
> this difference in behavior with Matlab should normally only affect
> interactive use.
> 
> jwe
> 

The problem is exactly that, at least on Windows, it doesn't work that way

octave.exe:1> d = cd
error: value on right hand side of assignment is undefined

Joaquim


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