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Here's the original shell, with its idea of the current directory
When we run do-cd, the shell forks a child process
The child process executes perl, which performs the cd
Perl forks a new process to run pwd
pwd reports that the current directory is /tmp, and exits
Then the perl exits
The original shell never cded anywhere
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