[ale] Bash scripts for idiots...

[ivey at realminfo.com (michael D. ivey)]

On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 10:14:31PM -0600, 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 a function.  in your .bashrc:

mycd() {
    cd /some/dir
    do 
	something
    done
    echo "still in /some/dir"
}

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