On Aug 25, 12:03 pm, Daniel Eggleston <[email protected]> wrote:
> The reason you cannot "permanently change" the cwd is that linux is using
> proper job management. When bash spawns a child process, it inherits the
> parent's environment, but a copy of it. Therefore, your cwd will impact
> child processes but the children cannot affect the parent.
Can't it make it an exception for one user-defined app defined in an
environment variable?
>
> What I'm not understanding is why you want to mash some graphical directory
> browser into the command line. You can, however, do something like this:
>
Trust me it is so much easier and faster. You can fly around with
ease using nothing more than the arrow keys and the enter key.
> 1) Write your application
> 2) have it print out the directory to stdout when it exits
> 3) write a wrapper script to run your program, like this:
> # filename=programNameWrapper
> cd "$(programName)"
> 4) write an alias line in your ~/.bashrc, like this:
> alias programName="source programNameWrapper"
> 5) every time you type programName at the prompt, you will change
> directories to whatever it prints out at the end.
>
> Daniel
I will try this. I have some other ideas too that I am going to try.
It would be best if my app ran in the same console window as opposed
to in an external x window. Not sure if that means I need to use
ncurses or not....
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