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On Friday 12 March 2004 01:28, Fred Gates wrote: |
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> this might qualify to be added to the bash ebuild. might want to vote |
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> and see if enough people like it first. unless its already |
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> implemented in gentoo? |
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> ---------------------------- Original Message |
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> ---------------------------- Subject: BASH feature: directory jumping |
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> w/o 'cd' |
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> From: "Walsh, Matt" <matt.walsh@×××××.com> |
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> Date: Tue, March 9, 2004 6:59 pm |
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> To: bug-bash@×××.org |
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> This improvement will save you three keystrokes, but they're 3 |
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> keystrokes you type a whole lot for no reason at all. Yes, I'm |
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> talking about the keystrokes 'c-d-(space)' |
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> I was a big fan of the old '4DOS' utility for DOS. One of my |
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> favorite features was where from a command line you could simply type |
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> a directory, and it would go there. I.e., instead of typing |
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> cd \Windows |
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> You, in 4DOS could just type |
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> \Windows |
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> In BASH, if you try this, it simply complains that "___ is a |
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> directory". In other words, it's a distinct unhandled case. Why not |
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> use this case for something useful? |
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> So, I made some mods to bash to make this in fact work like it did in |
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> 4DOS. You only have to patch one file, 'execute_cmd.c' |
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> I threw together this web page with more details. |
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> http://www.mattwalsh.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/BashDirectoryJumpPatch |
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> I think users will find it addictive; I did with 4DOS and now it's |
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> like falling in love again. |
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> If it you find a hole in this scheme please let me know. The only |
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> thing I can think of is that some scripts might be sloppy and simply |
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> check to see if a directory exists in this really backwards way. The |
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> code changes were actually very simple. If it looks ok I'll submit a |
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> patch to the BASH mailing list. |
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This would be fine as an option, and I would make it a multi state |
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option like this: |
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Off: Default |
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step one: auto cd if the 'command' equals '..' |
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step two: auto cd if the 'command' starts with '.', '..' or '/' |
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step three: auto cd when any directory path has been given as command |
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