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From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
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Subject: Re: C Program to execute programs in same console
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On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 09:33:04PM -0400, Jonathan Herriott wrote:
> usleep,
> 
> What I am trying to do is execute the command in the calling shell. 
> So, if I were to execute my program, which changes the directory, it
> would do the following:
> 
> > pwd
> /usr/home/username/
> > ./myprog ..
> > pwd
> /usr/home/
> 
> That's basically what I'm looking for.  Being able to modify the
> calling shell with a program.

It is not possible to do that.

A program can only change its own working directory, not that of other
programs.



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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se