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From: muquit@garfield.ncat.edu (MUHAMMAD A. MUQUIT)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: using cd command in a file
Message-ID: <1991May20.201923.27920@garfield.ncat.edu>
Date: 20 May 91 20:19:23 GMT
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In article <1991May20.155136.25162@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.

You can do the job if you put this line in your .login file:
     alias j 'cd /me/A/B/C/D'

I'm also curious why your way didn't work.  I think  there're lots of gurus
out there to answer this.

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