Re: OT: shell prompt tip
If your shell is bash then zou can create aliases. Write in .bashrc something
like
alias cd....='cd ../../..'
This allows you to type cd.... on the command line to go 3 directories up.
Sven
At Sat, 16 Sep 2000 09:40:07 +0100 (BST),
Simon Hales <s.hales@cwcom.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, J.P. Larocque wrote:
>
> >On an unrelated note, I'm *fairly* new to Linux (or UNIX in general), only
> >having been using it for about a year. In the DOS command-interpreter 4DOS,
> >I could refer to parent directories as . and .. as is the norm in DOS and UNIX.
> >But I could also type, say, "cd ....", which would be equivalent of typing
> >"cd ..\..\..\". It could be thought of as going up the directory tree, one dot
> >per level, the first representing the CWD. Is there any practical way I could
> >make bash expand multiple dots like it would wildcards, passing the full
> >expanded form onto the program being called, without hacking up the source to
> >bash?
>
> One reason this would not scale well from DOS to Unix, is that
> "..." "...." ".....", etc are in fact perfectly legal filenames under
> Unix/Linux. In MS DOS, the "." is a special character used by the
> FAT filesystem, and cannot be used in the filename, so "..." etc are
> free to be interpreted by shells and commands such as 4DOS, and various
> replacements for "CD"
>
> One Debian package I have come across so far that actually does create
> files called "..." is the Crypto Filesystem Daemon, cfsd.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Ahmed
>
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