osx shell terminates after using

Question

I have a shell script that changes directory and then runs. I want the directory change to be bubbled to the command prompt once the script terminates.

So, I run it with:

. script

However, now when the script terminates, the whole window terminates. Is there a way to fix this?

My shell is bash.

Answer 1

There are two ways to remedy this in Mac

A> Go to your Preferences for Terminal, Select [General], and uncheck the box that says "Close window if shell exits cleanly".

B> Point your favourite text editor to ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist

Find the rows:

 < key>ShellExitAction< /key>
< integer>1< /integer>

change the 1 to a 2 and restart the terminal app..

B is basically the same as A, but done manually.

Answer 2

Does script contain an exit statement? Remember that dot (sourcing) runs your code in the current shell. So if it has an exit, your current shell exits. You may want to check script and change any exit to return.

You may be able to detect being sourced (where you'd want to do return) and being run (where you may want exit)

[[ $BASH_SOURCE != $0 ]] && echo 'running sourced ...'