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Re: directory alias



shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> not sure if this is really a 'zsh thing' but I'm looking for a way to
> create aliases for a command. I don't want a bunch of symlinks in my
> home directory, and I don't want a universal alias for each directory
> I commonly cd into. What I want is a way to do:
> cd foo
> and it go to ~/some/deep/directory/tree/foo
> and
> cd bar
> and it go to /usr/local/some/path/bar

The obvious solution:

juno% setopt CDABLE_VARS
juno% bar=/usr/local/bin
juno% cd bar
~bar
juno% pwd
/usr/local/bin

-- 
Christian Neukirchen  <chneukirchen@xxxxxxxxx>  http://chneukirchen.org



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