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From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: using cd command in a file
Message-ID: <9105230900.22@rmkhome.UUCP>
Date: 23 May 91 17:59:00 GMT
References: <1991May20.201923.27920@garfield.ncat.edu>
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
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In article <1991May20.201923.27920@garfield.ncat.edu> muquit@garfield.ncat.edu (MUHAMMAD A. MUQUIT) writes:
>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.

A two line script would do it.

#!/bin/sh
cd /me/A/B/C/D

Then chmod +x scriptname.

Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	frog!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP