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- From: hurtta@cs.Helsinki.FI (Kari E. Hurtta)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
- Subject: Re: cd'ing to a dir from a process & staying there
- Message-ID: <HURTTA.92Aug20170038@plootu.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 15:00:38 GMT
- References: <BtA89y.MCt@encore.com>
- Sender: news@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Uutis Ankka)
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Lines: 13
- In-Reply-To: mpalmer@encore.com's message of 20 Aug 92 12: 34:46 GMT
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- In article <BtA89y.MCt@encore.com> mpalmer@encore.com (Mike Palmer) wrote:
- > Can anyone suggest a way for a process to cd to a dir & stay there when the \
- > process exits.
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- So program must modify its parent's environment ...
- That's magic.
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