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From: asg@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Bruce Varney)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Help with this script
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Date: 10 Apr 91 22:08:11 GMT
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In article <1991Apr10.140153.480@cca.vu.nl> hendrik@cca.vu.nl (Hendrik te Winkel) writes:
}rgupta@leland.Stanford.EDU (Rajesh Gupta) writes:
}
}>>
}>>Hi,
}>>I'm trying to write a script to emulate the DOS Norton Utilities "ncd" 
}>>accomplishes that job.  Unfortunately, when the shell is exited it
}>>returns the user to the directory from which it was called.  Does anyone
}>How about:
}
}>	cd `find . -name <argument> -type d -print` 
}>This should do the job.
}
}Not really, again when you put this into a file it will change your
}directory but after the filescript finishes you'll discover
}that you are again in the original directory.
}Of course you could alias it in csh.
}But now some real answer from a guru please! Is it really impossible
}to change your working dir with a shell script _and_ to remain there
}after it is finished? I don't know how to do it. Please inform.
}Hendrik
Why do you wnant to do it in a shell script?????????
Try using the CDPATH (or cdpath for csh junkies) variable.
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