[plug] bash: making cd persist after script has run

[Mike Holland]

On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Colin Muller wrote:

> I'd like to have a small bash script which I can use to do quick cd's
> to the directories I visit most frequently as I work. So, being a

Colin, there are better ways to achieve that.
I suggest that you look at the CDPATH environment var. - it lets you
list a number of places to look for dirs when cd-ing.

e.g.  set CDPATH=".:~:/home/colin/info/tech"

Combined with tab-completion, I think you will be pleased.

I can really recommend reading the bash manual. There are so many useful
things like that to discover. (Actually I read the zsh manual, but bash
seems to have caught up.)


> Or is there some better way I could approach this?

Yup!

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