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Re: Switching Directories Internally


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: Switching Directories Internally
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 08:38:58 -0500

> When switching a directory within a script, is it possible to change
> the default directory where the script was executed to arrive at
> another directory when the script ends, without using the period or
> source before the executing script at the command-line?

If you're asking whether a script can change its parent's current
working directory, the answer is no.

-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet)

Chet Ramey, CWRU    chet@po.CWRU.Edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/



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