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[–] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Try doing cd inside a function and then pwd in the main script. Does it move the main script too?

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm gonna bet yes for the simple reason that various helper scripts exist that do advanced cd history, with fuzzy search and whatnot, and they can't be implemented as anything other than functions.