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Stan
Asked: 2013-12-24 19:44:36 +0800 CST

Linux cd .. command

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Say if I need to do this a lot:

cd ../../../../foo/sub1/bar/dest/
cd ../../../../foo2/sub1/bar/dest/
cd ../../../../foo3/sub1/bar/dest/
cd ../../../../foo/sub1/bar/dest/

Is there any faster way to not always typing ../../../../ so many times? Any creative ideas?

unix

4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The classic way of doing this is setting the CDPATH variable. In your case it could be set to .:../../../../ or .:/path/to/the/parent/of/foo to achieve the desired effect. You can then simply do cd foo/sub1/bar/dest and get to where you want.

    The advantage of this is that tab completion for cd also looks at $CDPATH and will magically work.

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  2. You can use autojump which automatically learn from previous cd command and you only need to specify unique string from full path next time. ex. j foo, j foo1, j foo2

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  3. You can create shortcuts for these commands by adding aliases into the bash configuration file (~/.bashrc or /etc/bash.bashrc)

    alias cdd="cd ../../../../"

    Then when you type cdd it will execute that command.

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  4. I recently came across https://github.com/rupa/z, which lets you jump to a recently used directory by regex. So you could do something like:

    z foo3.*dest

    instead of:

    cd ../../../../foo3/sub1/bar/dest/

    (as long as you have visited that directory before, and nothing more recent / frequently used matches that regex)

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