Re: directory alias

[Dominik Vogt <vogt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 10:21:53PM -0500, shawn wilson wrote:
> What I want is a way to do:
> cd foo
> and it go to ~/some/deep/directory/tree/foo
> and
> cd bar
> and it go to /usr/local/some/path/bar
> 
> Is there some zsh-ism (or better bash-ism that also works in zsh so
> that this works on systems I maintain without zsh) to do this without
> symlinks?

Named directories.

  $ hash -d foo=~/some/deep/directory/tree/foo
  $ hash -d bar=/usr/local/some/path/bar
  cd ~foo
  cd ~bar

Personally I prefer aliases like

  alias cfoo "cd ~/some/deep/directory/tree/foo"

as I don't like to have the shortcuts for manually named dirs in
the prompt.  And actually finding these cd commands from the
history works automatically without having to define aliases or
hash table entries manually.

Ciao

Dominik ^_^  ^_^

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Dominik Vogt
IBM Germany