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Re: cd with two arguments
From: |
Chet Ramey |
Subject: |
Re: cd with two arguments |
Date: |
Mon, 14 May 2001 10:32:45 -0400 |
> I used to use some Motorola SystemV machine with ksh some time ago that
> accepted two arguments to cd, like
>
> stefan@stefan:~/src/kdelibs/arts/mcop$ cd src build
> stefan@stefan:~/build/kdelibs/arts/mcop$
>
> that is, if you give two arguments, then cd
> - takes the current path
> - searches for the first argument
> - replaces it by the second argument
> - cd's into that path
>
> I think that this behaviour sometimes has a convenient effect, and if you
> don't know about it, it shouldn't hurt you. Bash (2.05) doesn't do that.
> Could that be included in bash in the future? I could try to make a patch,
> if you like.
It's trivial to do with a shell function. Look at
examples/functions/ksh-cd in the bash-2.05 distribution.
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