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Justin
Asked: 2014-09-24 05:45:59 +0800 CST

Creating a Path Variable

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I need to set a path for a variable $week4 to be Week4/assignment so that typing cd $week4 will change the working directory to Week4/assignment/

I've seen a few examples of similar stuff on here, but I haven't been able to make it work for me. Help is appreciated!

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2 Answers

  1. Since your path has spaces in it you need to enclose both the path AND the variable in "". Try this from the command line.

    export week4="/home/Justin/Week 4/assignment/"

    Now you should be able to navigate to that directory by typing cd $week4

    If you want to make this permanent then add the same line to your .bashrc file.

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  2. To do that you can add following in your ~/.bashrc file .

      WEEK=/path/of/your/dir/

    Open ~/.bashrc file using gedit ~/.bashrc and add above in it an save it.

    Now you can use cd $WEEK to cd your folder

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