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From: dawn1@ihuxy.ATT.COM (Dawn E. Howe )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: ksh alias question (I'm not proud)
Message-ID: <2967@ihuxy.ATT.COM>
Date: 2 May 89 13:15:11 GMT
References: <292@tree.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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From article <292@tree.UUCP>, by stever@tree.UUCP (Steve Rudek):
> I thought I'd save myself some typing by building a file of paths to all
> my favorite directories and then defining the following alias.
> alias G='cd `grep $1 /usr/local/ut/paths`'   
> It doesn't work--for the obviously reason that $1 isn't making it to the
> subshell.  I've tried all manner of nested quotes.  Suggestions on how to
> do this?  I'd guess it could be done with an eval...but is that really
> necessary?

I don't have an answer for how to get your command to work, but there
is something to do this ALREADY BUILT INTO KSH.

Set (and export) the variable CDPATH to a colon(:)-separated list of
"favorite directories".  The working directory is specified by a . or
a Null directory name, which can appear before the first :, after the
last :, or between : delimiters.

Here's how it works:
--------------------
If the directory that you specify for "cd" does not begin with a /, then
ksh searches each of the directories in the CDPATH in order for the 
specified directory, and tries to cd to that directory.

Hope this helps.

Dawn E. Howe
AT&T Bell Labs

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