Secret Features in Your Unix Shell Cdpath

Link

https://medium.com/@symflower/secret-features-in-your-unix-shell-cdpath-cd0fe29f52cf

Notes

When you pass a relative path to cd, then the directories in $CDPATH will be used as base directories.

Example

mkdir places-to-be
mkdir places-to-be/hogwarts
mkdir places-to-be/narnia
mkdir places-to-be/the-shire
tree places-to-be
# places-to-be/
# ├── hogwarts
# ├── narnia
# └── the-shire

export CDPATH=$CDPATH:$PWD/places-to-be

cd ..
cd ..
pwd
/Users/
cd narnia
~/places-to-be/narnia
pwd
~/places-to-be/narnia

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Backlinks

• Cdp (DevLog)
• 2022-03-03 (DevLog)