a useful alias

[Glenn McIntosh]

In article <1004 at mit-trillian.MIT.EDU>, rlk at mit-trillian.MIT.EDU (Robert L Krawitz) writes:
> alias	ncd 'set d=`echo \!^* | sed "s/./\/&*/g"`; set d = `dirp $d`; cd $d || echo $d'
> [and includes C program "dirp"]

Another method to cause the alias to select only directories and not other
files is to add a "/" character in the appropriate place in the alias (I've
only tried this on a BSD system) i.e.,

alias c 'set d=`echo \!^* | sed "s/./\/&*/g"`/; cd $d || echo $d'

Tirian
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