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On Friday 11 May 2007 14:34, 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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It would not have worked anyway, since cd does not read its input from |
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stdin. Try: |
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[/]$ echo "etc" | cd |
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-bash: echo: write error: Broken pipe |
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[/]$ |
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> I didn't find a way to dropping the actual file name from the result |
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> of locate. |
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> I did a brief google on locate, but didn't find a switch to drop the |
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> actual file name from the result. |
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It's not a locate problem. Use the "dirname" command. |
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$ dirname /bar/foo.conf |
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/bar |
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and do something like |
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cd $(dirname "$(locate foo.conf)") |
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of course, make sure that the locate command returns just a single entry. |
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