Changing Directory

Daniel McGurl dsm at prism.gatech.EDU
Thu Aug 3 00:15:19 AEST 1989


In article <5068 at mtuxo.att.com> jld at mtuxo.att.com (XMRJ4-J.DALTON) writes:
>QUESTION: I have a very long path which is quite tedious to type in
>          every time I wish to visit a certain directory.
>	  My question: Is there a way that I can put this path in a 
>          file, then execute a shell that will place me in that directory?
Well, I tried this on our system, and to get it to work, I created a 
file containing the instructions

cd $HOME/foo/bar

then to execute it, I just did a 

. file

It's putting the shell through A LOT of work to do this, but it works.
-- 
Daniel Sean McGurl                       "He's got to make his own mistakes,
Office of Computing Services              and learn to mend the mess he makes."
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta Georgia, 30332                                ARPA: dsm at prism.gatech.edu



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