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From: urban@cbnewsl.att.com (john.urban)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How do you use CDPATH?
Message-ID: <1991May3.191026.15548@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 3 May 91 19:10:26 GMT
References: <1991May2.203153.13842@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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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
>


Under the Bourne shell here's a little example .....

$ CDPATH=:/:/usr	# <-Just like PATH, look in . first, then / then /usr
$ export CDPATH
$ cd /usr		
$ cd bin		# <- finds bin under . so go there.
$ pwd
/usr/bin
$ cd bin		# <- does not find bin under . so now search for first
			#    bin directory un the $CDPATH variable.
/bin			# <- automatically prints out where it found it.
$ pwd
/bin

Sincerely,

John Urban
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