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In article <1icv27INN6f2@fido.asd.sgi.com>, kipp@warp.asd.sgi.com (Kipp Hickman) writes:
|> 
|> In article <1ictqqINNk4a@tamsun.tamu.edu>, vamsee@abgen.tamu.edu writes:
|> > %xwsh -e rlogin <any-host>
|> > 
|> > The above command works on this SGI (Indigo 4.0.5A). But,
|> > 
|> > %xwsh -e /bin/ls
|> This will work, it just exit's immediately after finishing.  Try adding
|> the "-hold" option if you want wsh to hang around after finishing monitoring
|> the subprocess.
|> > %xwsh -e cd /usr/people/vamsee/junk
|> > %xwsh -e chdir /usr/people/vamsee/junk
|> > %xwsh -e cd /usr/people/vamsee/junk; vi <somefile>
|> These will never work because there is no such program called "cd".  When
|> you give xwsh the "-e" option you are changing its notion of the shell to
|> use to a specific program.  The arguments you give are just exec'd, not
|> run through another shell.
|> 
|> 					kipp

Try following:

%xwsh -e "/bin/sh -c cd /usr/people/vamsee/junk"
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etc.
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