using cd command in a file

[Dave Schweisguth]

>muquit at garfield.ncat.edu (MUHAMMAD A. MUQUIT) writes:
>>In article <1991May20.155136.25162 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Charles Blair writes:
>>>   I would like to get to a directory /me/A/B/C/D by just typing j.  I tried
>>>creating a file j with cd /me/etc in it, then chmod +x j.  It didn't work.
>>>Thanks in advance.  I'm sure I'm overlooking something well-known.
>>
>>You can do the job if you put this line in your .login file:
>>     alias j 'cd /me/A/B/C/D'
>>I'm also curious why your way didn't work.  I think  there're lots of gurus
>>out there to answer this.
>
>        Alias is definitely the way to go here.  As to why the script-file
>solution did not work: Whenever you invoke a script-file, it creates its
>own shell.  Within this shell, it cd's to the right directory, but then
>the script-file process terminates and your shell is still sitting right
>where it was before.
 
But 'source' in csh stays in the same shell and needn't be 'chmod'ed, yes?
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