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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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Alias to CD in a directory and call a command
I have a .bash_profile and in that I have a set of aliases. Those aliases at the moment execute only a single command and it was fairly easy. I would however like to do two things with a new alias ...
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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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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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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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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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-bash: /bin/cd: No such file or directory - automatically execute ls after cd
I accidentially destroyed my cd command.
I tried to automatically execute ls after cd is called.
I found a post saying that I have to execute alias cd='/bin/cd && /bin/ls', but now I get -...
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Command line shortcuts for changing directory [duplicate]
I'm looking for an easy way to navigate to directories spanning multiple hard drives and want to set something equivalent to a shortcut within the terminal.
In Windows I would accomplish this with ...
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How to declare some aliases dynamically in zsh?
I would like to declare a few shortcut commands to switch between my various coding projects, so I have come up with the following script.
projects=$(ls -d ~/Workspace/*/)
prefix="/Users/myuser/...
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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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How to create hyphen alias for zsh?
I am using zsh and oh-my-zsh on Ubuntu.
To change into the recent directory in the past there was an alias set to - which is the same as cd -. Somehow the alias disappeared at my machine. This might ...
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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 to create bash alias on Ubunth WSL when username has space and apostrophe
I'm trying to create the following alias in Ubuntu WSL:
alias windocs='cd /mnt/c/Users/Firstname L'astname/Documents/'
My username is unfortunately Firstname L'astname, including the space and ...
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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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Create alias for desktop directory
If I type in cd Desktop, no matter what folder the terminal is currently open in, I want it to navigate to /home/bob-ubuntu/Desktop
In my .bashrc file I have the following lines at the bottom:
alias ...
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