On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 06:58:19AM -0700, Kaz Kylheku (Coreutils) wrote: > On 26.08.2017 11:10, Colin Watson wrote: > > I would like there to be an adverbial version of "cd", which takes a > > path followed by a command and optional arguments and executes the > > command with its working directory set to the given path. Its > > invocation would be similar to chroot(8), that is: > > > > chdir [OPTION] NEWDIR [COMMAND [ARG]...] > > Could be an option in "env". > > env -C /path/to/dir VAR=value ... command arg > > (-C follows "tar -C' and "make -C").
Yep, Pádraig made a similar suggestion in https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2017-08/msg00055.html and the second patch I attached to https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2017-08/msg00058.html implements it. I intentionally didn't add a short option, though, because env(1) is a standardised utility with multiple implementations and I didn't want to risk colliding with somebody else's extension. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
