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[Sachin_ruk]

Hi all,

So I have created a shortcut called thesis on my (dont know the proper name) folder explorer. I want to cd into this without actually typing in the long folder path into it in the terminal.

i.e. can I do:
cd thesis
as opposed to cd ~/home/long/directory/path/thesis

Thanks,
Sachin

[HavarN]

if you add a line to your ~/.bashrc like this:

alias goto-thesis=cd ~/home/long/directory/path/thesis

Swith ~/home/long/directory/path/thesis with the actual path.

Then you can just type goto-thesis in the terminal to go there. (You have to close and reopen the terminal after having added that line to $HOME/.bashrc).

[Khayyam]

Sachin ...

I don't know that bash supports this but with zsh I can cd deep into a directory tree like so:

% mkdir -p long/directory/path/thesis
% cd */**/thesis

The problem with an alias is that it actually doesn't save that much typing.

% cd l<tab>d<tab>p<tab>t<tab>

There are also other methods of shortening the path, we could use 'ln' to make a (symbolic) link (which is as reusable as an alias).

% ln -s long/directory/path/thesis thesis
% cd thesis

best ... khay

[hwttdz]

+1 for linking.

[nd456]

Hi all,

So I have created a shortcut called thesis on my (dont know the proper name) folder explorer. I want to cd into this without actually typing in the long folder path into it in the terminal.

i.e. can I do:
cd thesis
as opposed to cd ~/home/long/directory/path/thesis

Thanks,
Sachin

The folder explorer is Nautilus