cd dir && command

[Ed Greshko]

Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> Hi ALL
> 
> I am referring to http://www.pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html
> 
> I have a query I did executed the above command
> 
> For example
> 
> [root at e root]# pwd
> /root
> [root at e root]# cd /home && ls
> kaushal  mydefs  newbuild  ram  test
> [root at e home]#
> 
> It didnot returned to the current directory I mean /root instead it
> went to /home
> 
> I am doing wrong somewhere

You are forgetting to leave the ( and ) as shown.

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