Changing Directory
William Davidsen
davidsen at sungod.crd.ge.com
Thu Aug 3 04:30:03 AEST 1989
Your shell probably has CDPATH, so you can put the pathname-1 there.
You can also define a symbol at startup:
foo=/big/long/ugly/path
cd $foo
You need to execute the script in the current shell rather than a
subshell, so the . command is used in shell.
$ cat foo
cd /big/local/ugly/path # this is the script
$ . foo # this will do what you want
QED
bill davidsen (davidsen at crdos1.crd.GE.COM)
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