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RE: Directory Aliasing
- From: "Bengt-Arne Fjellner" <bengt-arne dot fjellner at ltu dot se>
- To: "LittleTim" <timeapen at hotmail dot com>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:45:27 +0200
- Subject: RE: Directory Aliasing
- References: <11596212.post@talk.nabble.com>
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Bengt-Arne Fjellner
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of LittleTim
> Sent: den 14 juli 2007 20:34
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Directory Aliasing
>
>
> Hello Everybody:
>
> I don't have a lot of experience using Cygwin:
>
> Problem: I do a lot of work in a directory with a long path
> name: C:\very
> long path name\My Work
>
> Question: Instead of having to type cd C:\very long path
> name\My Work
> everytime I want to switch to this directory, is there any way to do
> aliasing? For example, no matter where I am in the file
> system, typing cd ~
> will take me to my home directory. I've tried to create a
> symbolic link.
> Of course the symbolic link is only valid in the directory where the
> symbolic link exists, and not from anywhere in the file system.
>
> tim
> --
alias golong='cd "/cygdrive/c/very long path name/My Work"'
In your ~/.bashrc should fix it
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