bubstance , 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

A different way to do the usual …=“cd …” and endless chains of …=“cd …/…” types of aliases:

bash/ksh version:

<span style="color:#323232;">..() {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    local count="${1:-1}"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    local path="../"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    while (( --count > 0 )); do
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        path="$path../"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    done
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    cd -- "$path"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">}
</span>

zsh single-line version:

<span style="color:#323232;">..() { cd $(printf "../%.s" {1..${1:-1}}) }
</span>

These take the number of directories that you want to move up as an argument (e.g. … 3), otherwise they move you up one directory when used with no arguments.