[olug] Unix Tip: SAYING PUT AND EXECUTING ELSEWHERE

[Dave Hull]

On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Unix Guru Universe wrote:

> Doing things from the present directory. 
> Say, if you want to list all the files 
> in /etc directory being in your present 
> directory you can do so by typing 
> 
> $ (cd /etc; ls -l)

Whatever happened to good ol' "ls -l /etc" or if you want stay in your current 
directory while executing scripts in another something equally tricky like 
"/usr/local/bin/siggen.pl nordquist"?

I'm still trying to figure out a situation in which this technique might be 
more useful than simply using a full path.

-- 
Dave Hull
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