From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 13 17:16:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA00510 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 17:16:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alaska.net (root@calvino.alaska.net [206.149.65.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA00504 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 17:16:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hmmm.alaska.net by alaska.net (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA09535; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 16:15:58 -0800 Message-Id: <323A5BF3.25BB@alaska.net> Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 00:17:07 -0700 From: hmmm X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Subject: . File Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk ok, there gotta be some way to do this! after all, w/unix, all things are possible, right? all i wanna do is have a script "cd" me to another dir. i have it on HIGH authority that this is not possible ... i have a path to the script in question exported via ENV(sh) if i have ". cd dir" in my script, it appears that "cd" does "cd" in the files shell, as opposed to a "cd" shell. if i have "cd dir" in my script, and do ". File", i get "path not found" error. i HAVE to do a ". /completePath/to/File" for it to function. am i really stuck? why do references to my PATH var get lost when specifying ". File"