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funk-shun
funk-shun

Reputation: 4421

how to create a path alias?

So "cs" will be mapped to "/College/" so that I can run the command "cd cs"?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 19830

Answers (1)

Michael Aaron Safyan
Michael Aaron Safyan

Reputation: 95479

I believe you are asking about how to create a symbolic link (or symlink) like:

ln -s College cs

Although, there are other ways to speed up your workflow, such as setting the CDPATH:

export CDPATH=.:~/:/College/

Or you could even make "cs" an alias that will perform the action "cd /College/":

alias cs='cd /College/'

If you did the above, you would type cs instead of cd cs to get there.

See also

  • ln - man page for the ln command from the POSIX 2004 standard
  • symlink - man page for the C function to create symlinks from the POSIX 2004 standard

Upvotes: 12

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