changing dir inside shell

[Patrick Barron]

In article <47800013 at uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> bianco at 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.