Shell Script cd
I am trying to write a shell script that sends me to my C programming directory from anywhere on the system.
#!/bin/sh
cd "$HOME/public_html/CSE121"
pwd
exit 0When I run the script I get this
Quote:
mjohn0882@cs:~/bin$ c
/home/students/mjohn0882/public_html/CSE121
mjohn0882@cs:~/bin$
Instead of shooting me over to my CSE121 directory, I am right back where I started in the bin directory, when the script terminates. What's up with that?
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 19:52 — 7th February 2007.
He has: 3,348 posts
Joined: Jul 2001
The [incode]cd[/incode] only applies "locally", that is, inside the new shell process ([incode]#!/bin/sh[/incode]). Once the process terminates, you're naturally returned right back where you initiated it.
A neat way to do this sort of thing is to set an alias in your shell. Something like:
mjohn0882@cs:~/bin$ alias c="cd $HOME/public_html/CSE121; pwd"mjohn0882@cs:~/bin$ c
mjohn0882@cs:~/public_html/CSE121$
Put that alias definition in your shell's init file (.bashrc?) and you'll have it for all new sessions.
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