How do I prevent 'cd' command from going to home directory?

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The thing is that sometimes I type 'cd' by mistake and that take me to the home directory.

e.g. I'm in a directory that have a hidden directory and a visible directory, I quickly press 'cd'+tab and that takes me to the home directory

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If you cd somewhere by accident, use cd - to return to your previous location -- bash keeps the $OLDPWD variable for this purpose. See gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#index-cd
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If you truly want cd to do nothing, you can write a function named cd that does nothing when no arguments are given, otherwise call builtin cd "$@"
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The thing is that sometimes I type 'cd' by mistake and that take me to the home directory.

e.g. I'm in a directory that have a hidden directory and a visible directory, I quickly press 'cd'+tab and that takes me to the home directory

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If you cd somewhere by accident, use cd - to return to your previous location -- bash keeps the $OLDPWD variable for this purpose. See gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#index-cd
â€“Â glenn jackman
1 hour ago

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If you truly want cd to do nothing, you can write a function named cd that does nothing when no arguments are given, otherwise call builtin cd "$@"
â€“Â glenn jackman
1 hour ago

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The thing is that sometimes I type 'cd' by mistake and that take me to the home directory.

e.g. I'm in a directory that have a hidden directory and a visible directory, I quickly press 'cd'+tab and that takes me to the home directory

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The thing is that sometimes I type 'cd' by mistake and that take me to the home directory.

e.g. I'm in a directory that have a hidden directory and a visible directory, I quickly press 'cd'+tab and that takes me to the home directory

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If you cd somewhere by accident, use cd - to return to your previous location -- bash keeps the $OLDPWD variable for this purpose. See gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#index-cd
â€“Â glenn jackman
1 hour ago

1

If you truly want cd to do nothing, you can write a function named cd that does nothing when no arguments are given, otherwise call builtin cd "$@"
â€“Â glenn jackman
1 hour ago

add a commentÂ |Â

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If you cd somewhere by accident, use cd - to return to your previous location -- bash keeps the $OLDPWD variable for this purpose. See gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#index-cd
â€“Â glenn jackman
1 hour ago

1

If you truly want cd to do nothing, you can write a function named cd that does nothing when no arguments are given, otherwise call builtin cd "$@"
â€“Â glenn jackman
1 hour ago

If you cd somewhere by accident, use cd - to return to your previous location -- bash keeps the $OLDPWD variable for this purpose. See gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#index-cd
â€“Â glenn jackman
1 hour ago

If you truly want cd to do nothing, you can write a function named cd that does nothing when no arguments are given, otherwise call builtin cd "$@"
â€“Â glenn jackman
1 hour ago

add a commentÂ |Â

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Use gedit ~/.bashrc and insert these lines at the bottom:

cd() 
 [[ $# -eq 0 ]] && return
 builtin cd "$@"

Open a new terminal and now when you type cd with no parameters you simply stay in the same directory.

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Here's how I put the current dir and user in my windows title - You can adapt it to your need, but cd -, equivalent to cd $OLDPWD is a better solution.

From my ~/.bashrc:

# from the "xttitle(1)" man page - put info in window title
update_title()
 [[ $TERM = xterm-color ]] && xttitle "[$$] $USER@$HOSTNAME:$PWD"


cd()

 [[ -z "$*" ]] && builtin cd $HOME
 [[ -n "$*" ]] && builtin cd "$*"
 update_title

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Use gedit ~/.bashrc and insert these lines at the bottom:

cd() 
 [[ $# -eq 0 ]] && return
 builtin cd "$@"

Open a new terminal and now when you type cd with no parameters you simply stay in the same directory.

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Use gedit ~/.bashrc and insert these lines at the bottom:

cd() 
 [[ $# -eq 0 ]] && return
 builtin cd "$@"

Open a new terminal and now when you type cd with no parameters you simply stay in the same directory.

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Use gedit ~/.bashrc and insert these lines at the bottom:

cd() 
 [[ $# -eq 0 ]] && return
 builtin cd "$@"

Open a new terminal and now when you type cd with no parameters you simply stay in the same directory.

answered 20 mins ago

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Use gedit ~/.bashrc and insert these lines at the bottom:

cd() 
 [[ $# -eq 0 ]] && return
 builtin cd "$@"

Open a new terminal and now when you type cd with no parameters you simply stay in the same directory.

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Here's how I put the current dir and user in my windows title - You can adapt it to your need, but cd -, equivalent to cd $OLDPWD is a better solution.

From my ~/.bashrc:

# from the "xttitle(1)" man page - put info in window title
update_title()
 [[ $TERM = xterm-color ]] && xttitle "[$$] $USER@$HOSTNAME:$PWD"


cd()

 [[ -z "$*" ]] && builtin cd $HOME
 [[ -n "$*" ]] && builtin cd "$*"
 update_title

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Here's how I put the current dir and user in my windows title - You can adapt it to your need, but cd -, equivalent to cd $OLDPWD is a better solution.

From my ~/.bashrc:

# from the "xttitle(1)" man page - put info in window title
update_title()
 [[ $TERM = xterm-color ]] && xttitle "[$$] $USER@$HOSTNAME:$PWD"


cd()

 [[ -z "$*" ]] && builtin cd $HOME
 [[ -n "$*" ]] && builtin cd "$*"
 update_title

answered 50 mins ago

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Here's how I put the current dir and user in my windows title - You can adapt it to your need, but cd -, equivalent to cd $OLDPWD is a better solution.

From my ~/.bashrc:

# from the "xttitle(1)" man page - put info in window title
update_title()
 [[ $TERM = xterm-color ]] && xttitle "[$$] $USER@$HOSTNAME:$PWD"


cd()

 [[ -z "$*" ]] && builtin cd $HOME
 [[ -n "$*" ]] && builtin cd "$*"
 update_title

answered 50 mins ago

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Here's how I put the current dir and user in my windows title - You can adapt it to your need, but cd -, equivalent to cd $OLDPWD is a better solution.

From my ~/.bashrc:

# from the "xttitle(1)" man page - put info in window title
update_title()
 [[ $TERM = xterm-color ]] && xttitle "[$$] $USER@$HOSTNAME:$PWD"


cd()

 [[ -z "$*" ]] && builtin cd $HOME
 [[ -n "$*" ]] && builtin cd "$*"
 update_title

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