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From: zzapper <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Simple Tip of the Day
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 20:38:16 +0000
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Hi,

It can be very useful to set a "marker" variable when you are copying/comparing files in complicated
and different paths

eg in directory

>cd /xx/yy/ggg/ccc/
type
>S=`pwd`

Then from anywhere else you can type

>cp $S/somefile<TAB> .

Where the <TAB> indicates that all of zsh's completions work


A useful alias to automate this

alias SRC='S=`pwd`;echo "S=$S"'
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