this is a command use case. Further,relying on shell such as cd subdir && foo is fragile: if it fails, we're not sure whether it's because it couldn't cd to subdir or because of foo.

Woudl the following be as efficient?

system_in_dir(string dir, string action){

auto path=getcwd

scope(exit)

chdir(path)

chdir(dir)

system(action)

}

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Benjamin Thaut <code@benjamin-thaut.de> wrote:

Am 24.10.2013 09:06, schrieb simendsjo:

On Thursday, 24 October 2013 at 06:25:40 UTC, Benjamin Thaut wrote:

As far as I can tell std.process can only run commands in the working
directory of the currently executing function. I want to execute a
certain program inside a subdirectory on windows and can't get it to
work:

myproject
|- subdir

So my executable has "myproject" as working directory. And I want to
execute "dmd" with "subdir" as working directory.

Isn't it possible to execute a command like "cd subdir && dmd"?

Thanks. That works. It still would be nice if std.process had this in its API.

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Kind Regards
Benjamin Thaut