I have a shell script (bash shell) that just has a cd command, but when it runs, the directory does not change. How can I get this to work?

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It would help greatly if you can post all or part of it... hard to say till we can see it.

You may not be having the problem you think... Is the cd /dir saved as a variable?

Im guessing this is Linux since its bash...

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A shell script is executed in a sub process. If you use a cd command, that sub-process will change directories. But when the script finishes, the parent process resumes. A sub process cannot affect its parent's current directory.

i should have remembered that from watching my ignite command kick off from cron... It executes a sh to run the make_tape_recovery from my mkignite.sh script.

It is best to use the full path in shell scripts imho...

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the shell script just has the following:

cd /home/spetnik


I remember back in school on sh shell with SCO Unix V that I was able to make a similar script. Surely, there must be a way, no?

-Aaron

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I think you can save the path to a variable and call it...

OR maybe add the PATH to $PATH for the dir in your script and call it that way

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You would have to run your cd script in your current shell, not a sub-shell, so...

. /path/to/script

...i.e dot space scriptname

Ygor is correct. You use . to prevent a "fork" from occuring when you execute the script. Keep in mind, if you just want the script to cd to the directory and then perform som functions, that will work within the script just fine.

Consider the following script:

cd /tmp
pwd

If you run the script, it echos out /tmp as the path - thus any operations that follow in the script will take place in /tmp. When the shell terminaties, you will not be in /tmp, but in your starting directory. If you want the script to leave the running shell in that directory, use:

. script

Cheers,

Keith