Changing Directory

Greg Pasquariello dune at cbnewsl.ATT.COM
Fri Aug 4 23:04:19 AEST 1989


>In article <5068 at mtuxo.att.com> jld at mtuxo.att.com (XMRJ4-J.DALTON) writes:
>>QUESTION: I have a very long path which is quite tedious to type in
>>          every time I wish to visit a certain directory.
>>	  My question: Is there a way that I can put this path in a 
>>          file, then execute a shell that will place me in that directory?

Although I am unsure of the version number, ksh on my machine at work
has a CDPATH variable.  It works like PATH, except it is used by cd.
If you have ksh, you might investigate this.

Greg Pasquariello
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