A related trick is to use parentheses to create a subshell, in the case where yo...

cannam on May 15, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: OS X Command Line Utilities

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

Debilski on May 15, 2014 [–]

This is probably the thing I’m missing the most in fish shell.