the subshell's way of chdir'ing

[Oskar Liljeblad <oskar osk mine nu>]

Check out this bug:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=150996&repeatmerged=yes

Short desc: When the subshell is active and you change dir in the
panels in MC, MC must make the subshell change dir too. This is
done by something like « cd "`echo '\0..\0..'`"» where \0..\0..
is a bunch of octal numbers. The problem is that some shells
require 'echo -e' instead of 'echo'.

Would it not be possible to fix this by doing

  cd "`cat some-temp-file-containing-new-working-dir`"

instead? Slower but more portable I think.

Oskar Liljeblad (oskar osk mine nu)