changing dir inside shell

[Torsten Homeyer]

In article <47800013 at uxe.cso.uiuc.edu< bianco at 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 the shells dot-command:

	$ . mover

	Then all commands in your script will be interpreted by your current
	shell, without forking another shell to interpret your commnd file.

		Torsten.