Bash puzzle: Spaces, environment variables and tab completion

[Michael Schaap]

On 4-12-2002 7:09, James Shaw wrote:
(...)
> What I want to do is define an environment
> variable so I can easily cd or ls.  E.g.
> % PF="/cygdrive/c/Program Files"
> % cd $PF
> % ls $PF/Games
> % ls $PF/G<tab completion!>
> 
(...)
> 
> So, I ask the list:
>         Can you define $PF so that cd $PF;
>         ls $PF/Games; and ls $PF/G<tab> all work???

I'd do something like:

% ln -s '/cygdrive/c/Program Files' /programs
% PF=/programs

  - Michael


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