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gumby on Jan 21, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Keeping a long shell history

If you’re doing this for history value put it in a subshell so it doesn’t change your working directory in a confusing way:

    (cd ~/x/y/z && my-command)

chrisshroba on Jan 21, 2024 [–]

Neat idea, definitely going to use this! Thanks for sharing

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