pwd & cd commands not working in shell script

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Here is my script

#!/bin/bash
pwd
cd /var/lib/pgsql

Both "pwd" and "cd" are not executed is there any other way i can change the current working directory to /var/lib/pgsql pls help!

2

Do you want to change current working directory by running this script? Then run your script as follows

. script_name

Note the space between dot and script_name

3

I want to display the result of the current working directory in the script how do i do it

4

Can you explain this? I dont get you.

5

I want to use the follwing command

pwd in the script but it says command not found after executing

6

Can you show the exact error message you are getting?

7

Thanks for helping me actually i was making a very sily mistake as some garbage characters were getting into my script any way thanx a lot

8 
echo $PWD

This will show your present working directory.

9

Hi i have newly joined this forum .

10

#!/bin/bash
cd /var/lib/pgsql