in reply to Change Directory

No. A child process cannot affect the state of the parent in POSIX.

You can source, or . (dot) a shell script to do that.

After Compline,
Zaxo

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Re^2: Change Directory
by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Jul 19, 2005 at 10:36 UTC

    In your file, no splatline needed, 

    # ~/file.rc
# do stuff
chdir /path/to
# do more stuff

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    Then on the command line, 
    ~>$ source file.rc
/path/to>$

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    Zaxo

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Re^2: Change Directory
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 19, 2005 at 10:28 UTC
    Thanks, but I tried to do it with source via a shell script, like
    # main
    #! /bin/sh

    source "./changeDir" ;

    # file changeDir
    cd a

    But that didn't work, can you tell me why ?

    Luca
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