Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!osiris.cso.uiuc.edu!gordon From: gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) Subject: Re: using cd command in a file Message-ID: <1991May20.210232.12425@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana References: <1991May20.155136.25162@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Mon, 20 May 1991 21:02:32 GMT Lines: 13 ceblair@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Charles Blair) writes: > I would like to get to a directory /me/A/B/C/D by just typing j. I tried >creating a file j with cd /me/etc in it, then chmod +x j. It didn't work. >Thanks in advance. I'm sure I'm overlooking something well-known. This would work better as an alias in your .cshrc or .profile. Example: alias j 'cd /me/A/B/C/D' --- John Gordon Internet: gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu #include gordon@cerl.cecer.army.mil #include