Help with this script
Rouben Rostamian
rouben at math13.math.umbc.edu
Wed Apr 10 04:19:29 AEST 1991
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.
>
>[Shell script deleted]:
>
Try
cd `find . -name 'pattern' -type d -print'`
where "pattern" is a directory name, possibly incuding wildcards.
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