From: zzapper <david@tvis.co.uk>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Alias for a dynamic variable?
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:00:02 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Xns97B2B71B41141zzappergmailcom@80.91.229.5> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EXCHANGE03iF5DIz5pF0000bf83@exchange03.csr.com>
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> wrote in news:EXCHANGE03iF5DIz5pF0000bf83
@exchange03.csr.com:
> zzapper wrote:
>> Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> wrote in
news:EXCHANGE03cWo7Z0xK40000be27
>> @exchange03.csr.com:
>>
>> > alias -g s='$OLDPWD'
>> this works such that I can
>> >cd s
>> but I cant do
>> >cp s/somefile .
>
> You can already use ~- to refer to the relevant directory.
>
cp ~-/suk.jpg .
Thanx JWTDO
Dead obvious when you know how!
zzapper
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-27 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-27 16:04 zzapper
2006-04-27 16:10 ` Peter Stephenson
2006-04-27 16:34 ` zzapper
2006-04-27 16:45 ` Peter Stephenson
2006-04-27 17:00 ` zzapper [this message]
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