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From: dsm@prism.gatech.EDU (Daniel McGurl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Changing Directory
Keywords: cd
Message-ID: <1325@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 2 Aug 89 14:15:19 GMT
References: <5068@mtuxo.att.com>
Reply-To: dsm@prism.gatech.EDU (Daniel McGurl)
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In article <5068@mtuxo.att.com> jld@mtuxo.att.com (XMRJ4-J.DALTON) writes:
>QUESTION: I have a very long path which is quite tedious to type in
>          every time I wish to visit a certain directory.
>	  My question: Is there a way that I can put this path in a 
>          file, then execute a shell that will place me in that directory?
Well, I tried this on our system, and to get it to work, I created a 
file containing the instructions

cd $HOME/foo/bar

then to execute it, I just did a 

. file

It's putting the shell through A LOT of work to do this, but it works.
-- 
Daniel Sean McGurl                       "He's got to make his own mistakes,
Office of Computing Services              and learn to mend the mess he makes."
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta Georgia, 30332                                ARPA: dsm@prism.gatech.edu