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On 11/12/2010 09:57 AM, Philip Webb wrote: |
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> There are quick'n'easy commands to goto the previous dir |
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> -- 'cd -' , which cb aliased as 'p' -- |
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> & goto the next-higher dir -- 'cd ..' , which cb aliased as 's' -- , |
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> but is there a way to set up a qne command to goto a parallel dir, |
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> eg if you're in ~/tmp goto ~/hold ( 2 of my commonly-used dirs) ? |
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> It needs to be a Bash function, so in ~/.bashrc |
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> I tried 'function cd2() { cd .. ; cd $1 ; }', |
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> so that 'cd2 hold' would take me where I wanted to go, |
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> but it simply dropped me in ~ , the 2nd half being ignored. |
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> It cb done with a shell var, |
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> ie 'function cd2() { NEWDIR=$1 ; cd .. ; cd $NEWDIR ; NEWDIR= ; }', |
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> which works but is a bit lengthy & could clash with an existing shell var. |
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> The elegant way is 'function cd2() { cd .. ; cd $"$1" ; }' ; |
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> the " ... " are essential: it fails without them or with ( ... ) instead. |
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> HTH a few others. |
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cd ${PWD/old/new} |
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works when you're in /some/old/tree/directory and you want to go to |
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/some/new/tree/directory |
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