This seems unnecessarily complicated. It's also not safe for pathnames with spaces or other shellcandy. Try:
function cd () { if [ ${1:0:2} == '..' ]; then rest=${1:2} rest=${rest//./../} builtin cd "${1:0:2}/${rest}" else builtin cd "$1"; fi }
Jerod Santo
· 3 months ago
You're absolutely right, my function doesn't handle spaces in pathnames at all. I'll give yours a try and if it works as advertised I'll be using it instead, thanks!
I'm not familiar with:
${1:0:2}
What does that mean?
someguy
· 3 months ago
${foo:x:y} == foo[x:y] in Python.
Jerod Santo
· 3 months ago
So you're accessing a subset of $1. That makes sense.
Your function works great in every situation except when you don't pass any args to cd at all. In this case, it fails. I added a check for that case and updated the function in the post. Let me know if it can be further improved.
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function cd () {
if [ ${1:0:2} == '..' ]; then
rest=${1:2}
rest=${rest//./../}
builtin cd "${1:0:2}/${rest}"
else
builtin cd "$1";
fi
}
I'm not familiar with:
${1:0:2}
What does that mean?
Your function works great in every situation except when you don't pass any args to cd at all. In this case, it fails. I added a check for that case and updated the function in the post. Let me know if it can be further improved.
Thanks!