Help with this script

[Rajesh Gupta]

In article <1991Apr9.164257.9128 at agate.berkeley.edu> danabu at garnet.berkeley.edu (Daniel N. Abushanab) writes:
>
>Hi,
>I'm trying to write a script to emulate the DOS Norton Utilities "ncd" 
>command.  It should scan a directory tree file, find a directory that
>matches a pattern inputted by the user, then exit.  The following shell
>accomplishes that job.  Unfortunately, when the shell is exited it
>returns the user to the directory from which it was called.  Does anyone
>have any idea about how to fix this?  Any help is appreciated, please 
>respond by e-mail and I will post solution here.
>
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How about:

	cd `find . -name <argument> -type d -print` 



This should do the job.



Rajesh Gupta

rgupta at sirius.stanford.edu