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Alexander Mills
Alexander Mills

Reputation: 100190

Command to cd to root of project

I have a specific file at the root of my project. I have a command line app (suman) that knows where this file is located. Is there a command line switch I can feed to my command line app that can take me to project root.

Something like

suman --home or suman -h or suman --root

what can I write as routine for this command that will actually change the current directory of the parent shell which issued this command? I am not even sure if this is possible.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 8238

Answers (2)

Alexander Mills
Alexander Mills

Reputation: 100190

If you have an NPM project, you can do this

function npmcd {
   cd $(npm root) &&
   cd ..
}

put the above in ~/.bashrc

and you should be good to go

Wherever you are in your project, you can issue npmcd at the command line and it will take your terminal to the root of your project, pretty swift.

Upvotes: 1

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785471

You can use a (bash/shell) function for this:

suman() {
   cd ~/project
   command suman "$@"
   cd -
}
  • cd ~/project - changes directory to $HOME/project
  • command suman "$@" - runs actual suman command
  • cd - - changes directory back to where we were

Upvotes: 2

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