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I'm searching for just one command — nothing with && or | — that creates a directory and then immediately changes your current directory to the newly-created directory. (This is a question someone got for his exams of "linux-usage", he made a new command that did that, but that didn't give him the points.) This is on a debian server if that matters. Marian Zburlea I believe you are looking for this: mkdir project1 && cd "$_" define a bash function for that purpose in your $HOME/.bashrc e.g. function mkdcd () { mkdir "$1" && cd "$1" } then type mkdcd foodir in your interactive shell So stricto

I used 'change directory' in my shell script (bash) #!/bin/bash alias mycd='cd some_place' mycd pwd pwd prints some_place correctly, but after the script finished my current working directory doesn't change. Is it possible to change my path by script? You need to source the file as: . myfile.sh or source myfile.sh Without sourcing the changes will happen in the sub-shell and not in the parent shell which is invoking the script. But when you source a file the lines in the file are executed as if they were typed at the command line. The script is run in a separate subshell. That subshell changes

In docker I want to do this: git clone XYZ cd XYZ make XYZ However because there is no cd command, I have to pass in the full path everytime (make XYZ /fullpath). Any good solutions for this? You can run a script, or a more complex parameter to the RUN. Here is an example from a Dockerfile I've downloaded to look at previously: RUN cd /opt && unzip treeio.zip && mv treeio-master treeio && \ rm -f treeio.zip && cd treeio && pip install -r requirements.pip Because of the use of '&&', it will only get to the final 'pip install' command if all the previous commands have succeeded. In fact, since

I have a batch file that I intend to distribute to our customers to run a software task. We distribute them as a folder or .zip with the files inside. Inside, there is the batch files and another folder with the files needed to run the batch. Normally, when you make a batch, you type the path where the files are. But I won't know where the files are. The files will still be kept inside the master folder, but I need to have the batch find that folder to run the files. So for example: If they have the master folder on the desktop and they run it, it would need to be something like "C:\Users