[olug] Unix Tip: SAYING PUT AND EXECUTING ELSEWHERE

[Brian Wiese]

Wasn't there some command that would let you go off into another shell or
path for a moment to work on a config file or something, and then one
could "cd back" to their previous path?  And I believe with the command
you could go back and forth?  

Or was this possibly only by having a different path during an "su"
situation, and then logging out of "su root" would bring you back to your
local user path?

If anyone knows, or esp ktb - I think you taught me this: TIA

peace
Brian

On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 15:46:55 -0600 (CST)
Dave Hull <dphull at insipid.com> wrote:

|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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