Re: New utility suggestion: chdir(1)

[Kaz Kylheku (Coreutils)]

On 26.08.2017 11:10, Colin Watson wrote:
> I would like there to be an adverbial version of "cd", which takes a
> path followed by a command and optional arguments and executes the
> command with its working directory set to the given path.  Its
> invocation would be similar to chroot(8), that is:
>
>   chdir [OPTION] NEWDIR [COMMAND [ARG]...]

Could be an option in "env".

  env -C /path/to/dir VAR=value ... command arg

(-C follows "tar -C' and "make -C").