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Francis Mariani
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UNIX whoami
-RUN

UNIX cd /bicocwf/ibi/ReportCaster76/bin
-RUN

UNIX pwd
UNIX ls
-RUN

The change directory command does not change the directory - it stays at 
/bicocwf/ibi/srv76/wfs/edatemp/ts000006

I am logged in with the directory owner User ID.

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Francis


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j.gross
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I believe each UNIX (or !) command in the fex operates on a fresh shell instance, so the change of directory location does not carry forward.
 
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Francis Mariani
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Jack,

Thanks for that info. I was hoping that this could be rectified by only having one -RUN, but that doesn't work either. I suppose a batch command file would be the right way to do this, but I'm trying to run something that is on a server I cannot create a batch file on.

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dbeagan
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Looks like you can use ; as a command separator:
 !cd ../.. ; ls

and && as a conditional:
 !cd ../.. && ls


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Waz
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We have used ;, but have also build a script and executed it if there are a number of commands.


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Francis Mariani
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Thanks.


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