Re: bash: can I cd from a script

[Dave Carrigan <dave@rudedog.org>]

On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 07:36, David Z Maze wrote:

> Depending on how complicated the script is, rewriting it as a shell
> function might be appropriate.  You could add to your .bashrc file
> something like
> 
>   cdls() { cd "$1"; ls; }
> 
> and then "cdls foo" would change directories to foo and list it.

If your script is really complicated, alter it a bit so it prints out
the directory to change to and you can still do it as a function:

mycd() {
  cd `my-big-script "$*"`
}

my-big-script:
#! /bin/sh

# Do lots of stuff
echo /the/new/directory

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