CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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Zii
Zii

Reputation: 359

How to navigate to a directory which is specified by contents of one file?

I used below 2 commands to change directory. And it seems it failed because the directory name includes space.

$ cat temp.temp
/cygdrive/C/training_course/Our\ Document

$ cd `cat temp.temp`
-bash: cd: /cygdrive/C/training_course/Our\: No such file or directory

However, below one works correctly. So what's wrong with above method? Is there any good way to change directory to one location specified in the contents of some file?

$ cd /cygdrive/C/training_course/Our\ Document

Upvotes: 1

Views: 34

Answers (1)

sjsam
sjsam

Reputation: 21965

read line <temp.temp && cd "$line"

may work.

This comes in handy when you're dealing with multiple directories in a file. If that is the case do something like :

while read line
do
cd "$line"
//something here
cd ..
done <temp.temp

Upvotes: 2

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