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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: 'cd' in shell-script or .profile
Keywords: cd - change directory in shell script
Message-ID: <13121@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 14 Jun 90 19:40:36 GMT
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In article <5672@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> trweil@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Weil Timothy Robert) writes:
>results were similar - a 'pwd' would indicate that I'd
>changed to the selected directory but UNIX kept me
>logged into $HOME....any other tricks to try?

A "cd" in a subprocess will not affect the CWD of an ancestral process.
However, your .profile is supposed to be executed in the context of the
login shell, so a "cd" there should work.  In fact, mine does it and it
works fine.