Re: [gentoo-dev] [Fwd: BASH feature: directory jumping w/o 'cd']

[Jason Rhinelander]

That was sarcasm, right?

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Drake Wyrm wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-03-11, 18:28:34 -0500, in
> <2591.68.56.194.157.1079047714.squirrel@×××××××××××××××××.org>, Fred
> Gates <dabozz@××××××××××××.org> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>>I was a big fan of the old '4DOS' utility for DOS.  One of my favorite
>>features was where from a command line you could simply type a
>>directory, and it would go there.  I.e., instead of typing
>>
>>cd \Windows
>>
>>You, in 4DOS could just type
>>
>>\Windows
>>
>>In BASH, if you try this, it simply complains that "___ is a
>>directory". In other words, it's a distinct unhandled case.  Why not
>>use this case for something useful?
>>
>>So, I made some mods to bash to make this in fact work like it did in
>>4DOS.  You only have to patch one file,  'execute_cmd.c'
>
> [snip]
>
> Beautiful. It makes so much sense, I wonder why it wasn't included in
> the original Bourne shell. After all, execute permissions on a directory
> mean that you can 'cd' to it, right? What better action to take when
> "executing" a directory?
>

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