using cd command in a file

[Tom Christiansen]

>From the keyboard of daniel at island.COM (Daniel Smith "innovation, not litigation..."):
:	In your ~/.cshrc file, add the element "~/.dirs" to the cdpath
:variable.  You may end up with something that looks like this:
:
:set cdpath=(. ~ .. ../.. /usr ~/.dirs)  # rearrange to suit...
:
:	Now, mkdir ~/.dirs, and cd into it...
:
:	As for your example, you could:
:
:	ln -s /me/A/B/C/D j
:
:	now source your ~/.cshrc, and you should be able to "cd j" and get
:to where you want.
:
:	The underlying idea is that you are creating a directory (~/.dirs)
:that potentially has a bunch of pointers (symbolic links) to places you like
:to go to frequently.  For instance, I "cd ulb" to go to /usr/local/bin,
:"cd ubx" to go to /usr/bin/X11, and so on.

Interesting.  Another baroque (baroquen? :-) idea is to just set a
variable to the name of directory.  On most csh derivitives, it suffices
to incant:

    set j=/me/A/B/C/D
    cd j

This is nice as it also allows you to use $j for things.

--tom
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