Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!steve
From: steve@geac.UUCP (Steve Lane)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: changing dir inside shell
Message-ID: <3090@geac.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jul 88 12:37:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: geac.3090
References: <47800013@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: steve@geac.UUCP (Steve Lane)
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In article <47800013@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> bianco@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>I have the following in a file called 'mover':
> cp *.me /usr/tmp
> cd /usr/tmp 
>Upon entering 'sh mover' the files are copied, and the directory is
>changed, however the shell is then exited and the current directory
>is changed back to my home directory. How can I cause the shell to exit
>in the directory I changed to ? 
>

Try using either of the following:

	. mover            -- instead of 'sh mover'
or	source mover       -- instead of 'csh mover'

Each of these statements executes the commands in 'mover' in the current
shell rather than firing up a sub-shell. You can also change shell
variables in a similar manner.

Steve.

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