101112 Bill Longman wrote:
> On 11/12/2010 09:57 AM, Philip Webb wrote:
>> but is there a way to set up a command to goto a parallel dir,
>> eg if you're in  ~/tmp  goto  ~/hold  ( 2  of my commonly-used dirs) ?
>> The elegant way is 'function cd2() { cd .. ; cd $"$1" ; }'.
> cd ${PWD/old/new}
> works when you're in /some/old/tree/directory
> and you want to go to /some/new/tree/directory
 
It works, but wouldn't be as useful for what I want to do,
as you'ld have to enter both 'old' & 'new' after the function command.
ie instead of 'cd2 hold', you'ld have to write 'cd2 tmp hold':
it doesn't work if you try 'cd ${PWD/./hold}', which leaves you in 'tmp'.

For generally jumping round the dir tree, I recommend Cdargs.

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