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- From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
- Subject: Re: cd'ing to a dir from a process & staying there
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.132211.4428@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 13:22:11 GMT
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- Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
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- From the keyboard of mpalmer@encore.com (Mike Palmer):
- :Can anyone suggest a way for a process to cd to a dir & stay there when the \
- :process exits.
- :
- :I have a ksh solution using an alias, a script & the program, but I'd like
- :to do it just with a program, or at least a script & program than will work
- :under csh & ksh.
-
- You posted this question to more than one newsgroup, without using the
- newsgroups line for crossposting, which wastes a lot of bandwidth.
- Please do not do this.
-
- This is Unix FAQ #14. I've responded to you in comp.unix.shell,
- whither followups to this post have been redirected.
-
- I strongly suggest you RTFFAQ first next time.
-
- --tom
- --
- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
-
- "* Unix is a footnote of AT&T Bell Laboratories."
- --Barry Shein
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