From: Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt@gmx.de>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: cd x x.something
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 08:25:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170925072532.GA4408@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170925021928.kmibsqzal2biy6w2@solfire>
On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 04:19:28AM +0200, tuxic@posteo.de wrote:
> . But suppose there are these two directories
>
> /a/b/ThisIsARedicoluousLongDirectoryNameWhichNoPersonWillReallyTypeInTwice
> /a/b/ThisIsARedicoluousLongDirectoryNameWhichNoPersonWillReallyTypeInTwice.bak
>
> and you are in the first one and you want to go to the seond one....
> do you really need to type in "ThisIsARedicoluousLongDirectoryNameWhichNoPersonWillReallyTypeInTwice"
> twice when you want to use this
>
> cd A B
You don't have to type the whole pth component, just the part you
want to replace:
$ cd e e.bak
(unfortunately the first argument cannot be empty; "cd '' .bak"
does not work (why?)).
Or to get back, even
$ cd .bak ""
Ciao
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
--
Dominik Vogt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-25 7:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-25 2:19 tuxic
2017-09-25 3:55 ` Amir Ish-Hurwitz
2017-09-25 7:25 ` Dominik Vogt [this message]
2017-09-26 18:50 ` Roman Neuhauser
2017-09-26 19:47 ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-26 23:56 ` Roman Neuhauser
2017-09-27 1:23 ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-27 3:47 ` Bart Schaefer
2017-09-27 4:05 ` Grant Taylor
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