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How can I write an alias for cd such that it will fire ls after going into the directory to which I just cd'ed into? [duplicate]
Lets say I want to do cd home and then ls -lrth. I want these two things combined into a single command. I tried writing an alias, but it didnt work. Can you help me ?
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Creating an alias to Change Directory and have that directory be the current working directory in new terminal tabs
I'm trying to create a convenience alias that will change directories and then start a node server in that directory. I have it working for the most part, there's just one little issue that I can't ...
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Automatically detect when I typed "vi" but meant "cd"?
About 5 times a day, I type "vi" when I meant "cd", and end up opening a directory in vi. It's making me NUTS. It seems like there should be a way to detect when I type in "vi + directory" and ...
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How to create a short path?
We have so many useful folders, which are in different path, for our working in Linux.
For example :
$ cd ~/Documents/Courses/EDX/physics2013/
$ cd ~/Documents/Company/OpenGL/Proj/...
$ cd ~/...
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Simplified navigation in terminal
I know IDEs are the wave of the future, but I always find myself coding in vim in a Linux terminal. Old dog. New tricks.
Anyway, navigation becomes challenging when dealing with long package names. ...
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Can I run a command after the user uses Ctrl-C to kill a command?
So at my position we use a shared set of aliases to do builds. Something like...
alias 'build'='cd $BUILD_ROOT; m; cp ...; cp...; deploy; deploy; deploy; cd -'
This is super irritating because the ...
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How can I create a "base" for other aliases to refer to and enable cd base/x command directories?
I have .bash_aliases with:
alias c1='cd /home/me/code/php'
alias c2='cd /home/me/code/jquery'
alias c3='cd /home/me/code/ruby'
alias c4='cd /home/me/code/c'
How can I DRY this up and loosen the ...
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How can I add an alias for my pwd to an existing file?
I want to add another alias to my "aliases" file for the directory I'm currently in (Present Working Directory)
I've tried
printf "alias aaa=cd " + pwd >> myfile
It's close, but I end up ...
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Quick directory navigation in the bash shell
I would like to frequently switch between directories that are in totally unrelated paths, for example /Project/Warnest/docs/ and ~/Dropbox/Projects/ds/test/.
But I don't want to type cd /[full-path]/...
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Change directory without typing cd?
Is it possible to make bash change directory in command line simply by typing that directory without any commands like cd?
For example is it possible instead of writing this:
$ cd /tmp
I just want ...
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