sending multiple commands to ksh not working in hp-ux

[Mikael Viklund]

Hiyas all.

Im trying to port some of my scripts from tru64 to hp-ux, but I got stuck on a simple thing like this. If I do : ksh "cd / ; ls" in tru64 or in Solaris it gives me the listing for /, but in hp-ux it says: "ksh: cd / ; ls: cannot open"

Why is that so, and how can I fix it?

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1]

You can use the sh

# sh "cd / ; ls"

[Steve Steel]

Hi

ksh -c "cd / ; ls"

Then it knows its a command


Steve Steel

[Victor BERRIDGE]

Hi,
What about:
ksh "$(cd /;ls)"

All the best
Victor

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi Mikael,

Use '-c' option to specify a command or a set of commands.

ksh -c "cd /;ls"

-Sri

[Fred Ruffet · Accepted solution]

If you want to keep something like your old command, you will like :
ksh -c "cd / ; ls"
-c option tells ksh to run a command then exit.

Note that running
cd / ; ls
(without running a new ksh) will do the same thing.

Another thing, look at those man pages :
sh-bourne(1) Bourne Shell (/usr/old/bin/sh)
ksh(1) Korn Shell (/usr/bin/ksh)
sh-posix(1) POSIX Shell (/usr/bin/sh)

If you port from sun, you'd better use sh as it is posix shell, as ksh on sun.

Regards,

Fred

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi,

echo "cd / ; ls" | ksh
should do it too.

greetings,

Michael

[Mikael Viklund]

Thanks all for replying. ksh -c did the trick for me.