in reply to shell cd within perl script

If you just want to change your "current working directory" you can use the builtin chdir, but I have no idea how to change your shells working directory.

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Re: Re: shell cd within perl script
by ishnid (Monk) on Apr 19, 2004 at 13:38 UTC
    chdir will only have effect within the script and won't affect the shell's pwd at all. Simple example: 
    perl -e "chdir('/home/username')"

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