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Re: shell script.
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Kunal Shah wrote:
> How to return a command from child shell to parent?
>
The key thing here is that the current working directory is a property of
a process and hence, changing it in a child process will not effect the
parent. You might want to source the file instead.
If you are using *sh*, try
. filename
- if *csh, try
source filename
Bye
Gautam
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