<div>Thank you. It is what I was looking for.</div>
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<div>How do you tell the shell use the cd function instead of the inbuild cd.</div>
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<div>-Narahari<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Don Lachlan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="http://ale-at-ale.org">ale-at-ale.org</a>@<a href="http://unpopularminds.org">unpopularminds.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha<br><<a href="mailto:savithari@gmail.com">savithari@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div>
<div class="im">> I remember using cd in the following way.<br>><br>> $pwd<br>> /this/is/the/folder/that/all/are/in/now<br>><br>> The folder structure till the that is<br>> $ls /this/is/the/folder/that/<br>
><br>> all<br>> males<br>> females<br>><br>> I was able to do this<br>><br>> $cd all males<br>> $pwd<br>> /this/is/the/folder/that/males/are/in/now<br>> $cd males females<br>> /this/is/the/folder/that/females/are/in/now<br>
<br></div>If you're trying string replacement in bash:<br><br>bash$ cd /usr/lib<br>bash$ pwd<br>/usr/lib<br>bash$!?cd?:s/usr/var/<br>bash$ pwd<br>/var/lib<br><br>I don't know of a 'cd' specific one to do that, but it's simple to<br>
write a bash function:<br><br>function cd () {<br> if [ -n "$2" ] ; then<br> nd=`pwd | sed 's/'$1'/'$2'/'`<br> builtin cd $nd<br> else<br> builtin cd $1<br> fi<br>}<br><br>bash$ cd /usr/lib/<br>
bash$ pwd<br>/usr/lib<br>bash$ cd usr var<br>bash$ pwd<br>/var/lib<br><font color="#888888"><br>-Lachlan<br></font>
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