set alias for a directory

Question

I am trying to set an alias that would allow me to quickly cd to the following directories:

/home/user/asreera/Aravind/sample/src
/home/user/asreera/Aravind/sample2/src

First I set the variable:

set use=/home/user/asreera/Aravind/

Then I've set alias:

alias mov 'cd $use/*/src'

My intended usage is:

mov sample

It should go to directory /home/user/asreera/Aravind/sample/src.

In case of mov sample2 it should go to directory /home/user/asreera/Aravind/sample2/src

When I use this alias I'm getting an error cd:too many arguments

Could someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong in this?

Answer 1

You should use:

alias mov 'cd "$use"/\!*/src'

!* in csh/tcsh alias resolves to all arguments of the command being run (i.e. what you put after mov).

See Writing Aliases in csh and tcsh for other options:

• !! is the whole command line
• !* is all the arguments of the command
• !:1 is the first argument of the command
• !:2 is the second argument of the command
• !$ is the last argument of the command

Each must be escaped by \.

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Could someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong in this?

When you execute:

mov sample

Shell resolves the alias to:

cd $use/*/src sample

Then expands the variable and executes:

cd /home/user/asreera/Aravind//*/src sample

cd command complains it has too many arguments.