[ale] Bash scripts for idiots...

[esoteric at denali.atlnet.com (Wandered Inn)]

Benjamin Scherrey wrote:
> 
> I appreciate the idea but I really want to do more than just that.
> Only, I need it to run within the current environment and make any
> changes persist within my session. An alias can't do it all. I can't
> believe this isn't a very simple basic thing to do (like a DOS batch
> file).

Try executing the shell in the current environment as follows:

. myshell.sh

> 
>         later,
> 
>                 Ben Scherrey
> 
> Raptor wrote:
> >
> > Why not just set up an alias for the directory in your .bashrc file?
> >
> > alias src='cd /develop/src'
> >
> > I think that will work.  I have an alias to my apache directory that
> > looks like this:
> >
> > alias apache='cd /home/httpd'
> <snip>

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