Re: cd as "alias"

[Josef Oswald <oswald@chello.at>]

Paul Gear <paul@gear.dyndns.org> writes:

> 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 #
>
> -- 
> Paul

Thanks Paul :-)

This works ( of course otherwise you would not have posted here) :-) 

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