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"cd -" and also using "cd" with no arguments to get back to $HOME are great tips. I also have a bash function called "up" to get back N directories up the hiera

by minimax 13y ago

"cd -" and also using "cd" with no arguments to get back to $HOME are great tips. I also have a bash function called "up" to get back N directories up the hierarchy so I can do "up 5" which is like "cd ../../../../.." but much easier to type. up () { if [[ $# -eq 1 && "$1" -gt 0 ]] ; then local i d for (( i = 0; i < $1; i++ )) ; do d="../$d" ; done cd $d else echo "Usage: up N" fi }

amboar 13y ago
I'm on my phone at the moment, but I did something similar except avoided the counting. I have a shell function called `ct` for "climb tree" where you specify the name of the directory you want to climb to; calling it will place you in the first directory above cwd whose name matches the argument and in addition I wrote a bash completion module for it so I only have to type minimal characters. I'll post the source for both shortly.
- amboar 13y ago
  Here's the script for ct: http://pastebin.com/M1k1WL88 http://pastebin.com/M1k1WL88 Looks like I wrote the tab-completion script on my work machine. I don't have access to it right now, but if I remember when I do have access I'll pastebin that as well.
  - minimax 13y ago
    This is awesome! You are awesome! :-)
    - amboar 13y ago
      Here's the tab completion script: http://pastebin.com/mR8y1Rks http://pastebin.com/mR8y1Rks Note it's the only tab completion script I've written, and it's probably a hack :P
      - minimax 13y ago
        Thanks for following up. I think I'm going to play with this later this week.
        amboar 13y ago
        No worries. Just throw them both in your .bashrc and you should be good to go.
ImprovedSilence 13y ago
I like this concept. My solution has been to use '..' '...' and '....' to go up 1,2,and 3 directories.
- jaseemabid 13y ago
  oh-my-zsh does this out of the box.
vram22 13y ago
Your function called "up" reminds me of long-ago-used Novell Netware version, in which, IIRC, you could do: cd .. # to go one level up cd ... # to go two levels up (note: 3 dots, not 4, makes sense when you think of "cd ." and "cd ..") # and so on.

by minimax 13y ago

amboar 13y ago

I'm on my phone at the moment, but I did something similar except avoided the counting. I have a shell function called `ct` for "climb tree" where you specify the name of the directory you want to climb to; calling it will place you in the first directory above cwd whose name matches the argument and in addition I wrote a bash completion module for it so I only have to type minimal characters. I'll post the source for both shortly.

amboar 13y ago
Here's the script for ct: http://pastebin.com/M1k1WL88 http://pastebin.com/M1k1WL88 Looks like I wrote the tab-completion script on my work machine. I don't have access to it right now, but if I remember when I do have access I'll pastebin that as well.
- minimax 13y ago
  This is awesome! You are awesome! :-)
  - amboar 13y ago
    Here's the tab completion script: http://pastebin.com/mR8y1Rks http://pastebin.com/mR8y1Rks Note it's the only tab completion script I've written, and it's probably a hack :P
    - minimax 13y ago
      Thanks for following up. I think I'm going to play with this later this week.
      - amboar 13y ago
        No worries. Just throw them both in your .bashrc and you should be good to go.

ImprovedSilence 13y ago

I like this concept. My solution has been to use '..' '...' and '....' to go up 1,2,and 3 directories.

jaseemabid 13y ago
oh-my-zsh does this out of the box.

vram22 13y ago

Your function called "up" reminds me of long-ago-used Novell Netware version, in which, IIRC, you could do: cd .. # to go one level up cd ... # to go two levels up (note: 3 dots, not 4, makes sense when you think of "cd ." and "cd ..") # and so on.