tcsh alias for cd through path of a port after searching

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Now I try to create an alias for this command:

alias cdport    'cd `whereis \!^ | awk \'{print $2}\'`'

Can't find any good examples of using more than 2 commands in a sequence.

How to fix that code? Thanks.

Your general syntax looks correct. But you need to remove the filename from $2 to get a directory that you can cd to. — Barmar, Commented Nov 17, 2014 at 21:56

Barmar · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-18 00:48:28Z

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You can't escape quotes in strings in csh. You need to switch to double-quoted strings to enter those characters:

alias cdport 'cd `whereis \!^ | awk '"'"'{sub("/[^/]*$", "/", $2); print $2}'"'"'`'

I've also fixed the awk script to remove the filename from the output of whereis, so you just get the directory part.

answered Nov 18, 2014 at 0:48

Barmar

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Actually I put awk only for removing filename. I thought that print $2 (second column) from first command output is right scenario.
– kAldown
Commented Nov 18, 2014 at 11:55
On my Debian system, the output of whereis find looks like find: /usr/bin/find /usr/share/man/man1/find.1.gz, so $2 would be /usr/bin/find. cd needs a directory, so it should be cd /usr/bin.
– Barmar
Commented Nov 18, 2014 at 16:07

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