If your shell is bash then zou can create aliases. Write in .bashrc something like alias cd....='cd ../../..' This allows you to type cd.... on the command line to go 3 directories up.
Sven At Sat, 16 Sep 2000 09:40:07 +0100 (BST), Simon Hales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, J.P. Larocque wrote: > > >On an unrelated note, I'm *fairly* new to Linux (or UNIX in general), only > >having been using it for about a year. In the DOS command-interpreter 4DOS, > >I could refer to parent directories as . and .. as is the norm in DOS and > >UNIX. > >But I could also type, say, "cd ....", which would be equivalent of typing > >"cd ..\..\..\". It could be thought of as going up the directory tree, one > >dot > >per level, the first representing the CWD. Is there any practical way I > >could > >make bash expand multiple dots like it would wildcards, passing the full > >expanded form onto the program being called, without hacking up the source to > >bash? > > One reason this would not scale well from DOS to Unix, is that > "..." "...." ".....", etc are in fact perfectly legal filenames under > Unix/Linux. In MS DOS, the "." is a special character used by the > FAT filesystem, and cannot be used in the filename, so "..." etc are > free to be interpreted by shells and commands such as 4DOS, and various > replacements for "CD" > > One Debian package I have come across so far that actually does create > files called "..." is the Crypto Filesystem Daemon, cfsd. > > > Regards > > Ahmed > > > My ICQ Number is:- 89224228 > > Powered by Debian/GNU Linux 2.2 (http://www.debian.org) > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
