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From: toma@swsrv1.cirr.com (Tom Armistead)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How do you use CDPATH?
Message-ID: <1991May3.070603.3751@swsrv1.cirr.com>
Date: 3 May 91 07:06:03 GMT
References: <1991May2.203153.13842@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
Organization: Software Services: Garland, Tx
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In article <1991May2.203153.13842@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jscott@isis.cs.du.edu (James Scott) writes:
>How do you use the environment variable CDPATH? I'm using
>both ATT SysV.3's sh and ntcsh version 5.12.
>Thanx,
>		James
>
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>=========================================================================
>James Scott                                       scott@gwhs.colorado.edu 
>                                                    jscott@isis.cs.du.edu
>George Washington H.S., Denver				     gwhs@csn.org

The CDPATH env var is used by the shell cd command.  cd will search for the
named directory along the path specified by CDPATH and if it finds it, will
change to it.  This allows you to change to directories without specifying
the full path.
  Ex.
    $ CDPATH=$HOME:/usr:/usr/local;export CDPATH
    $ mkdir $HOME/testing
    $ cd /
    $ cd testing

Tom
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