[plug] bash: making cd persist after script has run

[Mike Holland]

On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Colin Muller wrote:

> > I can really recommend reading the bash manual. There are so many useful
> > things like that to discover.
>
> Point taken - I'd done a man bash (sounds like violence GBH) but had

That wasnt an "RTFM". For a lot of programs, it makes sense to just use
the manuals just for reference. But the shell is a special case that
deserves cover-to-cover reading, even if you have been using it for years.

> somehow missed this. Thanks to you and all the others for three quite
> different approaches, all enlightening, and all of which achieve what
> I'm after.

But which is best? :-)

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