From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2008-09-30T03:53:15+09:00
Subject: Re:

Ara Howard wrote:
> On Sep 27, 2008, at 7:20 PM, Max Dev wrote:
> 
>> Then, I want the working directory to be changed (in terminal) by the
>> Ruby program after it exits.
> 
> 
> 
> cfp:~ > cat a.rb
> Dir.chdir '/tmp'
> exec 'bash'
> 
> 
> cfp:~ > ruby a.rb
> 
> 
> cfp:/private/tmp > pwd
> /private/tmp

Sneaky. That's not the original shell; type "exit" and you get back to 
the original shell, with its original working directory. And if you keep 
doing this, you'll eat up more and more process slots and RAM. But maybe 
it's sufficient for the OP.

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