Re: [gentoo-user] locate

[Alex Schuster]

Martin S writes: 

> Anyway I don't have a mouse on that system, so I'll have to use Alan
> suggestion.

You could use a little shell function like this one. Add it to your 
~/.bashrc or somewhere like that. 

locatecd()
{
        oldIFS=$IFS
        IFS=$'\n'
        results=( $( locate "$1" ) )
        ret=$?
        IFS=$oldIFS
        if (( ret ))
        then
                echo "Sorry, '$1' was not found."
                return $ret
        fi
        if (( ${#results[@]} > 1 ))
        then
                echo "More than one file found, using the first one."
        fi

        cd "$( dirname "${results[@]}" )"
} 

        Alex
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