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Mark Johnson |
Subject: |
"Partial Path" cd |
Date: |
23 May 2001 20:55:17 GMT |
I wrote up some code to do "partial prefix" cd if the argument to cd is
not valid. (If some one has a better phrase I'd be glad to hear it).
An example:
$ cd /usr/local/TEST.txt
bash: cd: /usr/local/TEST.txt: Not a directory
$ shopt -s cdpartial
$ cd /usr/local/TEST.txt
/usr/local
$ pwd
/usr/local
$
I tend to do this a lot after editing a file (vi .../README) and then
want to change to the directory that had that file in it, so I type
cd ESC-. RET so bash tries to cd /usr/local/README.
So the question is, for Chet especially, is this wanted in Bash?
I did realize (afterwards: doh!) that this could be done with a function,
but after also coding up the shell function I feel the C approach is
cleaner.
--
Mark Johnson
mjohnson@enteract.com
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