On 06/21/2011 12:14 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > There's a specific directory on my system, let's call > it /some/long/path/foobar, that I visit a lot, so it's a bore to have to > type the full pathname so often. The parent directory (/some/long/path) > is a component in CDPATH so I can just type 'cd foobar' and all is good. <snip> then consider an alias; alias cdfb='cd /some/long/path/foobar' now, a simple cdfb will put you there. i have used such aliases for long path directories for years and it has always worked. hth. -- peace out. tc.hago, g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** The installation instructions stated to install Windows 2000 or better. So I installed Linux. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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