OK: why are you trying to print values from a shell command that isn't going to write anything to STDOUT/STDERR?

As belg4mit pointed out what you really want to use are the built-in functions. Examples: 

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mkdir $some_dir;
chdir $some_dir; 
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Now, what I've shown above is a very basic way of using those built-ins. You can also trap some errors from these built-ins as well. For instance: 

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chdir $some_dir or die "HEY!  I couldn't CD into $some_dir:$!";
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mkdir $another_dir or die "OHMIGOD! I couldn't make $another_dir:$!"; 
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Now, it must be noted that under *nix the value of umask is going to influence the behavior of mkdir and what the resultant permissions of the created directory are. But that, kind monk I leave as an excersise in your own ability to learn more about.

Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional
Peter -at- Berghold -dot- Net; AOL IM redcowdawg Yahoo IM: blue_cowdawg

In reply to Re: System Commands by blue_cowdawg
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