Is there a way to get into an alias directory from shell with the command \"cd\" ? It always returns that \"htdocs\" isn\'t a directory.
Edit: I made the shortcut with t
you can make symbolic link to it.
ln -s EXISTING_PATH LINK_NAME
ln -s ~/Documents/books ~/Desktop/
Enter into a directory through an alias in Mac OS X terminal
All i want is to open my terminal and type
cd htdocs
so that i can work from there.
The easier approach is probably to ignore the links and add the parent directory of your htdocs
directory to the CDPATH
environment variable. bash(1)
will check the contents of the CDPATH
environment variable when you type cd foo
to find the foo
directory in one of the directories listed. This will work no matter what your current working directory is, and it'll be easier than setting symbolic links.
If the path to your htdocs
is located /srv/www/htdocs/
, then you could use CDPATH=/srv/www
. Then, cd foo
would first look for /srv/www/foo/
and change to it if it exists; if not, then it would look for foo
in the current working directory and change to it if it exists. (This might get confusing if you have multiple htdocs
directories on your system; in that case, CDPATH=.:/srv/www
would let you change into a child directory easily but still use the /srv/www/htdocs/
version if no ./htdocs
directory is present.)
You can add the CDPATH=/srv/www
line to your ~/.bashrc
file so it works every time you start a terminal.
alias cdgo=`echo cd /root/go/`
cdgo will run, then get command "cd /root/go/" and enter, and it will change your directory in current terminal process
It works on my centos, no test with osx
There is a old hint on macworld to do this in a way that is integrated with BASH: Enable 'cd' into directory aliases from the Terminal
Plus, here is an answer that uses this solution on superuser.
I am not sure how OSX exposes Alias links but since you are using bash you can just create a variable in your .bashrc
file.
On its own line put:
htdocs=YourDirectoryPath/
Once you have restarted bash you can just type cd $htdocs
I personally use this to quickly work in the directory which is present deep inside one of my Volumes in my Mac.
Open your ~/.bash_profile
, create an alias to the directory by adding this:
alias cdh="cd /Volumes/Haiku/haiku/src/apps/superprefs"
Save it, restart your terminal. Now on typing cdh
in your terminal should change the working directory to the one mentioned as the alias.