Question

I’m trying run a git pull on a bunch of folders. This is what I got so far:

find . -type d -name .git \
| xargs -n 1 dirname \
| while read line; do cd $line && git pull; done

Problem is that cd doesn’t work I get a bunch of errors:

sh: cd: ./project_one: No such file or directory
sh: cd: ./project_two: No such file or directory
...

But when I do cd ./project_one it works fine. What’s wrong? Any ideas?

Answer 1

Perform the cd and subsequent operations in a subshell so that the main process remains in the appropriate directory.

... | while read line; do ( cd $line && git pull ); done