command alias

[Unewbeginner]

Hello everyone, I'm pretty new to Ubuntu and want to have some shell commands to make my work easier. Basically I hope to have a short cut like this:

goto nameabc123456

and then I go to the directory

./name/abc/123/456/

How could I get this work? Do I need to write some python scripts?
Any suggestions are welcome!

[asmoore82]

The TAB key is your best friend: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_line_completion

[Unewbeginner]

Sorry I might not make it very clear. It's for our daily work and the directories is much deeper than I wrote. Just imagine it's something like:


/name/test/xxx/year/month/day/version/abc/123/456

So I need to make it as easy as possible.

[bodhi.zazen]

Add an alias to ~/.bashrc

The syntax is

alias shortcut = command

I advise you use the full path to most commands, but cd is "built in"


alias foo='cd /full/path/to/directory'

change "foo" and the path as needed.

[Unewbeginner]

Our file system have thousands of the code in this style. So I have to have a function like command that I get quick path change when I input "goto name123456" "goto name 254157" "goto name521516" etc.

[bodhi.zazen]

Our file system have thousands of the code in this style. So I have to have a function like command that I get quick path change when I input "goto name123456" "goto name 254157" "goto name521516" etc.

Then you shall have to write a script to do that for you. Without knowing your thousands of directories it would be guess work for us to start something like this for you.

http://linuxcommand.org/

[asmoore82]

For specifying a full path, it can't get any faster than tab completion.
Tab completion also guarantees no typos.

[Unewbeginner]

Then you shall have to write a script to do that for you. Without knowing your thousands of directories it would be guess work for us to start something like this for you.

http://linuxcommand.org/

Our system is for multiple users, and then has a level related to user names(like Mike, Tom, Kate, etc). And the system has some codes for detail information, a 3-character code (for example "abc", "exj", "tsr", etc".
Then two sets of numbers (each has 3 digits). You could call it test codes.
Then some individual folders for the test results (pic for all pictures, sim for all simulations, etc).

Below are some examples for our folders.

/Projects/tsr/job/mike/012/531/sim
/Projects/ace/job/tom/423/151/pic

I want to develop a shortcut for this:
when mike inputs the command below on his machine, then he gets to the first directory above.

sim tsr012531

when tom inputs the command below on his machine, then he gets to the second directory above.

pic ace423151

Hope it makes things clear:)

[brishu]

echo "anyName(){cd /thing/one/$1/awesome/$2/$3;}" | tee -a ~/.bashrc
(also, what the code after the | does is copy the code between the "" into the .bashrc file (which is where you store your aliases and extra functions))

doing that will go to /thing/one/my/awesome/code/isAwesome if you type on
anyName my code isAwesome

BUT, keep in mind, they NEED to be separated by space.

also going with your example if I wanted tom to go to: /Projects/ace/job/tom/423/151/pic when he typed in: pic ace 423 151
"goToFolder(){cd /Projects/$2/job/$USER/$3/$4/$1;}"

Although I will however say that it really is much easier to specify a full path via Tab-completion.

[DaithiF]

a bash function like this may give you a start:

function pic() {
input=$1
first=${input:0:3}
remaining=${input:3}
trailing_path=""
while true
do
[[ ${#remaining} -le 0 ]] && break
trailing_path="${trailing_path}${remaining:0:3}/"
remaining=${remaining:3}
done
requested_dir="$first/job/$USER/${trailing_path}pic"
cd $requested_dir
}

[Unewbeginner]

If I don't want to separate the code, do I need to use python script for this?


echo "anyName(){cd /thing/one/$1/awesome/$2/$3;}" | tee -a ~/.bashrc
(also, what the code after the | does is copy the code between the "" into the .bashrc file (which is where you store your aliases and extra functions))

doing that will go to /thing/one/my/awesome/code/isAwesome if you type on
anyName my code isAwesome

BUT, keep in mind, they NEED to be separated by space.

also going with your example if I wanted tom to go to: /Projects/ace/job/tom/423/151/pic when he typed in: pic ace 423 151
"goToFolder(){cd /Projects/$2/job/$USER/$3/$4/$1;}"

Although I will however say that it really is much easier to specify a full path via Tab-completion.

[theozzlives]

A regular BASH script should suffice, but I agree using the full path is easier.

[DaithiF]

update to my earlier post -- adding a couple of aliases for sim and pic to a generic function which does the work of figuring out the directories

add to .bashrc:

alias sim="quickdir sim "
alias pic="quickdir pic "
function quickdir() {
lastdir=$1
input=$2
first=${input:0:3}
remaining=${input:3}
trailing_path=""
while true
do
[[ ${#remaining} -le 0 ]] && break
trailing_path="${trailing_path}${remaining:0:3}/"
remaining=${remaining:3}
done
requested_dir="$first/job/$USER/${trailing_path}${lastdir}"
echo $requested_dir
cd $requested_dir
}


usage:

sim tsr012531


pic ace423151