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| From: | Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] locate | ||
| Date: | Fri, 11 May 2007 12:56:10 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20070511134843.72ffea84@hactar.digimed.co.uk | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] locate by Martin S |
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| 1 | On Fri, 11 May 2007 14:34:44 +0200, Martin S wrote: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > Just recently tried using |
| 4 | > |
| 5 | > locate foo.conf | cd |
| 6 | > |
| 7 | > to automagically move to the directory in which I've saved foo.conf |
| 8 | > Of course it didn't work as you can't cd to /bar/foo.conf |
| 9 | > |
| 10 | > I didn't find a way to dropping the actual file name from the result of |
| 11 | > locate. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | cd $(dirname $(locate foo.conf)) |
| 14 | |
| 15 | -- |
| 16 | Neil Bothwick |
| 17 | |
| 18 | WinErr 010: Reserved for future mistakes by our developers |
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| Re: [gentoo-user] locate | Martin S <shieldfire@×××××.com> |