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From: pdb@sei.cmu.edu (Patrick Barron)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: changing dir inside shell
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Date: 26 Jul 88 17:55:19 GMT
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Reply-To: pdb@sei.cmu.edu (Patrick Barron)
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In article <47800013@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> bianco@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>How can I cause the shell to exit
>in the directory I changed to ? 

Your shell script runs in a child process, and can't affect the state
of it's parent (like changing it's working directory).  To make this
work, you need to execute the shell commands within your top-level shell.
Use ". <filename>" to do this, or "source <filename>" with the C-shell.

--Pat.