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From: davidsen@sungod.crd.ge.com (William Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Changing Directory
Keywords: cd
Message-ID: <1457@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
Date: 2 Aug 89 18:30:03 GMT
References: <5068@mtuxo.att.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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Organization: General Electric Corp. R&D, Schenectady, NY
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  Your shell probably has CDPATH, so you can put the pathname-1 there.
You can also define a symbol at startup:
	foo=/big/long/ugly/path
	cd $foo
You need to execute the script in the current shell rather than a
subshell, so the . command is used in shell.
	$ cat foo
	cd /big/local/ugly/path		# this is the script
	$ . foo				# this will do what you want
QED
	bill davidsen		(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM)
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