How to change dir in tcsh without chaging cd -

Question

I am using tcsh.

I want to create an alias where I cd into another directory and execute a command.

But I dont want to touch cd -. How do i do this?

Thanks in advance.

Edit: PS: The other directory has a script that uses local relative paths, thats why I have to cd into that dir.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 15 '18 at 15:50

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Just execute your command in the appropriate directory.

If I am in /home/hardknock/Documents/ and I dont want to leave this directory but I want to delete something in /etc/ I can just sudo rm -r /etc/folder_name/ and I will never have left Documents.

The same logic applies to pretty much any CLI command.

answered Jun 15 '18 at 15:50

reka18

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This would not work since the other directory has a script that has local paths. – justrajdeep Jun 15 '18 at 15:57

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 15 '18 at 16:02

Because - is an alias to the last directory I was in, you could, rather complicatedly preserve it using the directory history stack:

pushd -
pushd -
cd /
do command here
popd
popd

I'm sure there's a better way of accomplishing this, but this is one way of doing it.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 15 '18 at 16:38

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Run it in subshell!

alias myalias '(cd /to/directory; run_commands)'

answered Jun 15 '18 at 16:38

uzsolt

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How to change dir in tcsh without chaging cd -

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