On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 01:41:24PM +1930, Juan Miguel Paredes wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Dos-Man 64<[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm trying mc now. How do I exit the program after I change to the > > specified directory? If I click "Close Session" on the window title > > bar, the console window closes. > > The "wcd" utility (http://www.xs4all.nl/~waterlan/) has been around > for long time, and is compatible with a lot of platforms... I would > recommend that you try it before developing an ad-hoc script and > such... Check the screenshots. It's installable on Debian/Ubuntu from > apt repositories. > > Cheers, > > Juan > > > DosMan, to exit mc, you press F10 -- but there's a shell inside mc so you don't have to (and it won't change the cwd of the parent script anyway)
I've never played with wcd before, but it looks interesting -- it creates an index of directories so you only need to type a few characters of the name. Definitely take Juan's advice and have a look. At the very least, they describe how to make an external app change your cwd. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
