Re: cd as much as possible

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2016, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:

> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 22:45:09
> From: kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com>
> To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>,
>     tlikonen@iki.fi
> Subject: Re: cd as much as possible
> Resent-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 03:45:45 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 2:11 AM, Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> wrote:
> > I don't know about zsh but here's a sh/bash function:
> >
> >     mycd() {
> >             local dir=$1
> >             while ! cd -- "$dir"; do
> >                     dir=$(dirname -- "$dir")
> >             done
> >     }
>
> This is exactly what I wanted. Thanks. It works in zsh too.
>
> raju
The find command probably can handle this maybe in a shorter form.  I 
don't know as much syntax of that command as I'd like otherwise this could 
probably written in a single line of code.

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