Last msg sounded a bit harsh, sry about that. Anyway, some things to consider: 1. You don't need bash, but rather use /bin/sh to be more compatible with other

Last msg sounded a bit harsh, sry about that. Anyway, some things to consider: 1. You don't need bash, but rather use /bin/sh to be more compatible with other shells (I don't have bash, neither does a lot of other systems after latest Shellshock incident). There's really no need to limit it to bash (bash is one of many shells but very commonly mistaken for "shell script"). 2. The script is executed in a subshell, so the directory your script is in when exiting is irrelevant, it doesn't affect the caller at all. Try by creating a new script that just does 'cd a_dir_that_exists' and run it from a terminal. :) 3. set -e makes the program stop in case of _unhandled_ errors yes, so you're right, the example I gave is indeed wrong and it would stop on the failed cd attempt. Instead of using '|| true' (to deliberatly ignore errors), the std way to do it is '|| :' (which doesn't fork the true binary). However I would really recommend taking care and handling possible errors.