From: Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: copying to a deep parallel directory
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 17:51:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131106175115.09d0cf95@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <XnsA270B0962A6B6davidrayninfocouk@80.91.229.13>
On Wed, 06 Nov 2013 17:21:23 +0000 (UTC)
zzapper <david@rayninfo.co.uk> wrote:
> Say I want to copy a file from
>
> /var/www/html/admin/include/
>
> to
>
> /var/www/live/admin/include/
>
> I can of course
>
>
> cd html live
>
> and then I can use $OLDPWD or ~+1
>
> but is there anything niftier?
So we're assuming you're in the former directory...
cp <file> ${PWD/html/live}
This syntax gets a bit messy if you're changing multiple levels
since you need to quote the slashes.
pws
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-06 17:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-06 17:21 zzapper
2013-11-06 17:46 ` Jérémie Roquet
2013-11-06 17:51 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2013-11-06 18:00 ` zzapper
2013-11-06 20:03 ` Dan Nelson
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