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From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: directory alias
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 19:02:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k3fkbikv.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH_OBidDmzECfgLVcEUmRj2+bean+WjuBvgiPV6SoE9i0kPfKA__21315.6334394172$1386127558$gmane$org@mail.gmail.com> (shawn wilson's message of "Tue, 3 Dec 2013 22:21:53 -0500")

shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> writes:

> 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

The obvious solution:

juno% setopt CDABLE_VARS
juno% bar=/usr/local/bin
juno% cd bar
~bar
juno% pwd
/usr/local/bin

-- 
Christian Neukirchen  <chneukirchen@gmail.com>  http://chneukirchen.org


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