A related trick is to use parentheses to create a subshell, in the case where you have a fixed command sequence you want to execute in another directory but you

A related trick is to use parentheses to create a subshell, in the case where you have a fixed command sequence you want to execute in another directory but you don't want to stay there: $ pwd /tmp $ mkdir -p a/b/c $ ( cd a/b/c ; pwd ) /tmp/a/b/c $ pwd /tmp