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Re: Alias for a dynamic variable?

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From: zzapper <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Alias for a dynamic variable?
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:34:38 +0000 (UTC)
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Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx> wrote in news:EXCHANGE03cWo7Z0xK40000be27
@exchange03.csr.com:

> alias -g s='$OLDPWD'
this works such that I can
>cd s
but I cant do
>cp s/somefile .
 
So decided what I really want is just a shorter name for $OLDPWD

so I can do say

> cp $OP/somefile .

In fact tab completion helps so I don't have to type all of $OLDPWD

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