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From: rgupta@leland.Stanford.EDU (Rajesh Gupta)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Help with this script
Message-ID: <1991Apr9.175008.12044@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 9 Apr 91 17:50:08 GMT
References: <1991Apr9.164257.9128@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: Computer Systems Laboratory, Stanford University
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In article <1991Apr9.164257.9128@agate.berkeley.edu> danabu@garnet.berkeley.edu (Daniel N. Abushanab) writes:
>
>Hi,
>I'm trying to write a script to emulate the DOS Norton Utilities "ncd" 
>command.  It should scan a directory tree file, find a directory that
>matches a pattern inputted by the user, then exit.  The following shell
>accomplishes that job.  Unfortunately, when the shell is exited it
>returns the user to the directory from which it was called.  Does anyone
>have any idea about how to fix this?  Any help is appreciated, please 
>respond by e-mail and I will post solution here.
>
...


How about:

	cd `find . -name <argument> -type d -print` 



This should do the job.



Rajesh Gupta

rgupta@sirius.stanford.edu