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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: remembered directories
Message-ID: <5432@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Feb-87 22:47:29 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 13 22:47:29 1987
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Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <1014@valid.UUCP> markp@valid.UUCP (Mark P.) writes:
>I have found it useful to be able to attach symbolic names to certain
>directories during a session ...
>
>	alias m 'set zz\!*=$cwd'

I leave out the `z's,

	alias mark 'set \!:1=$cwd'

so as to use a feature of the C shell:

	mark here
	...
	cd here

One need not even type `$here'.  If a directory does not exist, csh
tries searching its `cdpath', then tries evaluating the name as a
variable!

(I generally use pushd and popd to store directory names; `mark' is
more useful with commands that need to look in two different paths,
and here `$here' is necessary anyway.  Ah well.)
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