On 9 Feb 2019, at 15:02, Christopher Stone <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 02/09/2019, at 03:08, @lbutlr <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> $(cd ~/Downloads; ls -l |bbedit -s)
>> 
>> or 
>> 
>> echo 'ls -l' | $(cd ~/Downloads; bbedit -s)
> 
> Hey Lewis,
> 
> These work, but they change the working directory.

Yes, I thought that was what you wanted.

> The whole purpose of my request was to provide a means of opening the 
> worksheet to a specific directory without changing the working directory.

Um, Ok, what? They change the working directory *for BBEdit*.

$ pwd; $(cd ~/Downloads; ls -l |bbedit -s); pwd
/Users/lbutlr
/Users/lbutlr 

I couldn't think of a use for putting the list of files of a directory into a 
shell worksheet and not changing BBEdit to that directory, but if that is 
useful, this does that.

ls -l ~/Downloads | bbedit -s

will dump the list of files in ~/Downloads into bbedit and not change directory.

> For that matter bbedit -s does NOT work unless text is piped to it.

bbedit -s .

When the BBEdit man page says "the specified files" for a flag, it means that a 
file is required. (FSVO of the word file)

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