On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 02:05, John W. Krahn wrote: > Kenton Brede wrote: > > > > I've been searching the archives and google for an answer. I suspect it > > can't be done but thought I'd ask. > > > > What I'm trying to do is create a tool such as "cdargs", in perl, to > > simplify moving between directories on the command line. > > > > The problem I'm having of course is actually changing the shell's > > working directory from the Perl script. Is there anyway I can do this > > with Perl? > > It is very easy to change the directory from inside a Perl program > however as soon as the program exits the changes will be lost. This is > true of Perl or C or Bash or anything that runs as a child of the > shell.
He's right, out of curiousity I tried the following: % perl -e "`cd ..`;"; % ./test # where test was: #! /bin/bash cd .. And neither worked. However, if he wanted to he could create a script that moved to that directory, and ran a copy of sh or bash, couldn't he? Then pipe commands back and forth. It would be terribly inefficient though. -Dan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
