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From: daniel@island.COM (Daniel Smith "innovation, not litigation...")
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: using cd command in a file
Message-ID: <4076@island.COM>
Date: 21 May 91 18:26:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: island.4076
References: <1991May20.155136.25162@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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In <1991May20.155136.25162@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> 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.

	You may get a lot of answers telling you to make an alias so that
when you type 'j', you'll go where you want.  I'll propose another solution
I've been using for several years.

	In your ~/.cshrc file, add the element "~/.dirs" to the cdpath
variable.  You may end up with something that looks like this:

set cdpath=(. ~ .. ../.. /usr ~/.dirs)  # rearrange to suit...

	Now, mkdir ~/.dirs, and cd into it...

	As for your example, you could:

	ln -s /me/A/B/C/D j

	now source your ~/.cshrc, and you should be able to "cd j" and get
to where you want.

	The underlying idea is that you are creating a directory (~/.dirs)
that potentially has a bunch of pointers (symbolic links) to places you like
to go to frequently.  For instance, I "cd ulb" to go to /usr/local/bin,
"cd ubx" to go to /usr/bin/X11, and so on.

					Daniel
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