Re: cd to a file

[Atom Smasher <atom@smasher.org>]

not nearly as elaborate as Frank Terbeck's function, but i think this 
provides the basic functionality to cd to a file without breaking 
anything. the "echo" command is very much optional...

cd() {
   ## cd to a file
   if [ 1 = "${#}" ] && [ '-' != "${1}" ] && [ \! -d "${1}" ] && [ -d "${1:h}" ]
   then
     echo "correcting \"${1}\" to \"${1:h}\"" >&2
     builtin cd "${1:h}"
   else
     builtin cd "${@}"
   fi
}


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