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That works yes. |
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A bit much to typw though. Don't know if I'd save much time from first doing |
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a locate and the manually typing the cd [result] string :) |
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Martin S |
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2007/5/11, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>: |
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> On Fri, 11 May 2007 14:34:44 +0200, Martin S wrote: |
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> > Just recently tried using |
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> > locate foo.conf | cd |
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> > to automagically move to the directory in which I've saved foo.conf |
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> > Of course it didn't work as you can't cd to /bar/foo.conf |
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> > I didn't find a way to dropping the actual file name from the result of |
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> > locate. |
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> cd $(dirname $(locate foo.conf)) |
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> Neil Bothwick |
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> WinErr 010: Reserved for future mistakes by our developers |
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Regards, |
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Martin S |
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