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From: stevenh@tekig4.UUCP (Steve Herring)
Newsgroups: net.sources
Subject: Re: set work dir aliases (Any shell with aliases)
Message-ID: <519@tekig4.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 28-Feb-86 16:27:05 EST
Article-I.D.: tekig4.519
Posted: Fri Feb 28 16:27:05 1986
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Reply-To: stevenh@tekig4Herring.UUCP (Steve Herring)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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>Here's a similar scheme that several people have been using on both
>csh and ksh:
>
>csh:
>alias	d1	'set D1=`pwd`'
>alias	cd1	'cd $D1'

Replacing `pwd` with $cwd will make d1 execute much faster.
As in:

alias	d1	'set D1=$cwd'

Steve Herring
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