How to use file protocol to access a directory on local system?

Question

like /usr/local?

I tried file:///usr/local but failed

[root@www2 robot]# cd file:///usr/local
-bash: cd: file:///usr/local: No          


        

Answer 1

If you have to deal with file:///usr/local on the command line, you could just remove the "file://" part. And do then a normal your command, e.g.:

echo "file:///usr/local/" |  sed 's/file:\/\///' | cd