On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 15:52 +0000, g wrote: > 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. Sure, but that's an ad hoc solution. I was interested in finding out why something that used to work no longer works. If this is a bug it should be reported as such. If it's my fault then it's a learning opportunity :-) poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
