newby bash script question

[Alex Maynard]

On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Tyler Aviss wrote:

> You can actually do a "cd" within a bash script and it will do the
> same as if done manually from the command-line, it's not really that
> discriminatory as to who is entering input (script or user) in most
> cases.
>
> So in your script, just do
> cd B
> latex file.tex

You're right. That does work. I'm not sure what I was doing wrong before.
I feel a bit embarrassed. Thank you! Alex

>
> The same as you might do from the command-line. Alternately, it might
> just be a good idea to hardcode B into a variable or something of the
> like:
>
> NEWDIR=/path/to/B
> cd ${NEWDIR}
> latex file.tex
>
>
>
> On 9/1/07, Alex Maynard <maynarda-dxuVLtCph9gsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm sorry to be posting you what should be a very simple
>> bash script question. Somehow I haven't quite been able to find an answer to this.
>> (Probably I am picking bad search words on google.)
>>
>> It boils down to not being able to cd properly inside a bash  script.
>>
>> What I am trying to is to run a script from directory A
>> A$./script
>> That would have the same effect as using cd to get to directory
>> B and then running a file. Specifically, I would like the script to do
>> the command line equivalent of:
>>
>> A$ cd B
>> B$ latex file.tex
>>
>> which is my case produces different results then
>> A$ latex B/file.tex
>>
>> because the first way latex would look for other files (such as style
>> files) in directory B where they should be but the second way it
>> will look for them in A instead where it won't find them.
>>
>> Sorry for posting such a basic question and thanks very much for any
>> suggestions you might have.
>>
>> Alex
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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