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From: shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 22:21:53 -0500
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Subject: directory alias
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
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not sure if this is really a 'zsh thing' but I'm looking for a way to
create aliases for a command. I don't want a bunch of symlinks in my
home directory, and I don't want a universal alias for each directory
I commonly cd into. 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?