Changing Directory

A. Lester Buck buck at siswat.UUCP
Sat Aug 5 07:19:05 AEST 1989


In article <5068 at mtuxo.att.com> jld at mtuxo.att.com (XMRJ4-J.DALTON) writes:
>QUESTION: I have a very long path which is quite tedious to type in
>          every time I wish to visit a certain directory.
>	  My question: Is there a way that I can put this path in a 
>          file, then execute a shell that will place me in that directory?

Since no one has mentioned this yet...

Why not use the CDPATH variable, available in all System V Bourne shells
(at least), which was designed for just this purpose?

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