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From: pfinkel@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (paul.d.finkel)
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Subject: Re: how to change parent environment?
Message-ID: <1991May14.161037.25742@cbfsb.att.com>
Date: 14 May 91 16:10:37 GMT
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In article <1991May2.194624.21819@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov> njacobs@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Nick Jacobs - EOS) writes:
>How do you change the current working directory in a program, so
>that when the program is invoked from a shell, the cwd stays
>changed after the program exits?
>You can't do it with chdir(2) of course, because that only affects
>the current process.
>
>Nick

 You could run it from a shell function:

	$pwd    
	/usr/bin
	$go_go()
	{
	cd /etc
	your_command
	pwd
	}
	$go_go
	/etc
	$pwd
	/etc