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- From: jhgreen@cs.sandia.gov (Jethro H. Greene)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: looking a utility to chdir without typing full path
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.005220.19993@cs.sandia.gov>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 00:52:20 GMT
- Article-I.D.: cs.1993Jan9.005220.19993
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- In article <1ikvt1INNqq2@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> cl820@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Wei Jin Mai) writes:
- >
- > I just switch to Unix from Dos. Is there a utility or shell that let you
- >change directory without typing full path? For example: chdir abc changes
- >working directory to /usr/local/src/abc .
- >--
-
- "cd dir_name" should work. Also, if you want to get fancy, play around with
- the CDPATH.
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- Jethro H. Greene
- Massively Parallel Computing Research Laboratory,
- Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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