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Aren't you tired of using "cd ../"

1 points by juanbrein 13y ago

As a sysadmin how many times have you typed this sequence? I bet that in my past 20 years... billions. This might be a silly simple thing but never read it before. Why not: alias .='cd ../' and voila from 5 to 1. That is what I call a quick win :-)

ekke 13y ago
Why not? Because it changes the meaning of '.': ~$ echo date > d.sh ~$ d.sh -bash: d.sh: command not found ~$ . d.sh 06:37:21 EDT 2013 ~$ alias .='cd ../' ~$ . d.sh /home$ Is not works! But another alias with no previous meaning would do well - i use 'up' :)
- dan2k3k4 13y ago
  I use ".." to go up one, and ".. 3" to go up 3. Source: http://alias.sh/cd-number-dirs http://alias.sh/cd-number-dirs
  - eroullit 13y ago
    For "longer" jump through the filesystem, 'autojump' does a great job https://github.com/joelthelion/autojump https://github.com/joelthelion/autojump
    - juanbrein 13y ago
      Great, thank for the advices. I'll take a look at them all! Cheers Juan
mhd 13y ago
Why the slash? And a lot of Linux distributions already have '..' as the same alias -- as . is already a shortcut for 'source'. If you really want to optimize this, there's always your .inputrc. "\e[24~": "cd ..\n" For lots of terminals, this maps your F12 key to go up a level in the directory hierarchy, no subsequent press of the enter key required.