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From: don@hcrvx1.UUCP (Don McKillican)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Can anyone explain?
Message-ID: <1209@hcrvx1.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 31-Jul-85 09:16:28 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 31 09:16:28 1985
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Organization: Human Computing Resources, Toronto
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>> : Copy a file to a directory then chdir to the given dir
>> case $# in
>> 	2) cp $1 $2/$1 ; cd $2 ;;
>> 	*) echo 'Usage: ccarry file dir/path' ;;
>> esac
>
> Due to the design of the shell, it does not work (not in actuality anyway).
>Does anyone out there know of a way this can be done.

If your version of unix has shell functions, you could try something along
these lines:

	cpd() { cp $1 $2/$1 ; cd $2 ; }

This defines cpd as a shell function which executes the commands listed *within
the current shell*, rather than in a subshell.  This is documented in SH(1)
(page 2 in the System 5 documentation).

			Don McKillican @ Human Computing Resources Ltd.
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