use a script to cd... 5

[AdamCoombs]

Hello!

I am writing a script which searches a flat text file for a job number and if it exisits the last thing the script need to do is cd the user to the dir.
trouble being, if i put a "cd" command in the script it doesn't actually take the user to the dir. I understand why its not working, i just dont know a way round it to fix it.
any ideas?

Cheers
Adam

 

[grega]

One method would be to run the script in the current shell (i.e don't let it spawn a child to run the script). To do this you "source" the script rather than run it. So insead of typing

scriptname

at the command line, you'd say

. scriptname

Greg.

 

[TimeTraveler]

Note that this doesn't work with csh (C shell), but does for sh, bash, and ksh.

For csh, do

source scriptname

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[mi294r3]

Check out my FAQ . I just posted it 6-Aug
Unix Scripting FAQ
ksh Inter-process comm's

Using Signal and TWO-WAY pipe to cd login shell from another script

 

[SamBones]

Hey mi294r3! Awesome FAQ! Very cool trick!

 

[vgersh99]

I second SamBones - good stuff!

vlad
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