andrew Black wrote:
> Hi
> I am trying to write a program that will allow me to CD to various
> places (more details later). I want to call this from the windows
> command line (cmd).
>
> Ways I have tried are
> - use Perl "chdir" - but this only affects the perl process. The
> caller doesn't see that change.
> - write a bat file that calls the Perl which somehow returns the
> result back to the bat file that can then CD for you. How can you
> return this
> REM mycd.bat
> perl find_dir.pl %1
> cd %directory_returned_by_find_dir%
Did a little searching and came up with this to replace the above 2 lines :
for /F "usebackq" %%i in (`perl find_dir.pl %1`) do cd %%i
>
> In a bit more detail as to what I am trying to do at application level.
> I want to be able to type "mycd test" and this looks up test in a flat
> file and finds
> test : c:\blah\blah\moreblah\test
> and cds you to the correct directory
>
> Any thoughts as to how to do this
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