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Re: cd as "alias"



Josef Oswald wrote:
> Well while searching something else, I saw once a very neat alias for
> cd.
> 
> with this alias one was/is able to change into another directory without
> first typing _cd.._  and then _cd_new_directory. 
> 
> so far I can remember  the alias was like this 
> 
> alias cd ="cd .. && " but not much further.
> 
> Anyone using something like this? 

The preferred method for this behaviour would be to run:
	export CDPATH=".:.."

Example:

enoch:/root # ls
Old  bin  var
enoch:/root # cd bin
enoch:/root/bin # cd var
-bash: cd: var: No such file or directory
enoch:/root/bin # CDPATH=.:..
enoch:/root/bin # cd var
/root/var
enoch:/root/var #

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