On 9/3/19 3:12 PM, Vito Caputo wrote: > Hello list, > > Lately I've been finding myself wishing there were a flag for mkdir to > cd into the directory, especially in combination with creating parents. > > It's like I'm already thinking in convenient shortcut mode asking for > parents to be created and just want to throw another flag in there to > switch my directory as well in the same command. > > i.e. > short: mkdir -pc /foo > long: mkdir --parents --chdir /foo > > Any chance of getting this in or too creepy?
It can't happen in coreutils. The current working directory of the shell CANNOT be influenced by the actions of a child process, which coreutils would necessarily be. It can, however, be done in the shell, if your shell author is interested in writing a builtin version of mkdir (to match the fact that chdir is already a shell builtin, for what should be obvious reasons). However, you don't even have to modify the shell source code, but instead just write a function to do the two steps in one function call. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
