skip wrote:
A simple script like the one below lets me jump through a directory structure. However, if I run it from /this/directory and within it to go to /a/totally/different/directory... I'm still actually going to be in /this/directory when I exit the script. Is it possible to have a script that can drop me off into a different directory than where I initiated it from?As has already been reported, under Linux a change to the current working directory won't affect the environment of the parent process. You may find that under some Windows command line interpreters that the change to the working directory made by a program persists into the interactive session that triggered the program.
import os process = 1 while (process): # Display directories for i in os.listdir(os.getcwd()): if (os.path.isdir(os.path.join(os.getcwd(),i))): print i
# Change directory goto_dir = raw_input(": ") if (goto_dir in os.listdir(os.getcwd())): os.chdir(os.path.join(os.getcwd(),goto_dir)) else: process = 0 # Exit
One way to achieve your desired goal, of course, is to call your program using a shell expansion sequence (assuming Unix-like shell environments), as in:
cd `myprogram.py`
and then if your program outputs the path to a directory your shell's current working directory will be chaged as you require.
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