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Let's say I have this alias in my .bashrc



alias somedir="cd /var/www/site"


how can I use somedir in say ... a cd command?



e.g.



cd somedir/app/


doing this currently returns:




-bash: cd: somedir/app: No such file or directory




Is it even possible to use an alias this way?






alias bashrc







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    Even if aliases were expanded in operand positions this wouldn't do what you want, you'd end up with cd cd /var/www/site/app (note the double cd). Why not just use a variable?
    – Fox
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    export SOMEDIR="/var/www/site"; cd "$SOMEDIR/app"
    – RoVo
    4 hours ago











  • @Fox ah of course, can't believe I missed that ... could I add it to the alias, e.g. somedir/app? (tried: answer no xD)
    – ThisGuyHasTwoThumbs
    4 hours ago











  • @RoVo I suppose that makes sense, create it as a var and then can use within the cd - ty :)
    – ThisGuyHasTwoThumbs
    4 hours ago










  • Also look up cdable vars and autocd in the bash manual (not sure if they can be combined, but one of them maybe useful)
    – muru
    3 hours ago














up vote
2
down vote

favorite












Let's say I have this alias in my .bashrc



alias somedir="cd /var/www/site"


how can I use somedir in say ... a cd command?



e.g.



cd somedir/app/


doing this currently returns:




-bash: cd: somedir/app: No such file or directory




Is it even possible to use an alias this way?






alias bashrc







share|improve this question

















  • 3




    Even if aliases were expanded in operand positions this wouldn't do what you want, you'd end up with cd cd /var/www/site/app (note the double cd). Why not just use a variable?
    – Fox
    4 hours ago







  • 1




    export SOMEDIR="/var/www/site"; cd "$SOMEDIR/app"
    – RoVo
    4 hours ago











  • @Fox ah of course, can't believe I missed that ... could I add it to the alias, e.g. somedir/app? (tried: answer no xD)
    – ThisGuyHasTwoThumbs
    4 hours ago











  • @RoVo I suppose that makes sense, create it as a var and then can use within the cd - ty :)
    – ThisGuyHasTwoThumbs
    4 hours ago










  • Also look up cdable vars and autocd in the bash manual (not sure if they can be combined, but one of them maybe useful)
    – muru
    3 hours ago












up vote
2
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up vote
2
down vote

favorite











Let's say I have this alias in my .bashrc



alias somedir="cd /var/www/site"


how can I use somedir in say ... a cd command?



e.g.



cd somedir/app/


doing this currently returns:




-bash: cd: somedir/app: No such file or directory




Is it even possible to use an alias this way?






alias bashrc







share|improve this question













Let's say I have this alias in my .bashrc



alias somedir="cd /var/www/site"


how can I use somedir in say ... a cd command?



e.g.



cd somedir/app/


doing this currently returns:




-bash: cd: somedir/app: No such file or directory




Is it even possible to use an alias this way?






alias bashrc




alias bashrc






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  • 3




    Even if aliases were expanded in operand positions this wouldn't do what you want, you'd end up with cd cd /var/www/site/app (note the double cd). Why not just use a variable?
    – Fox
    4 hours ago







  • 1




    export SOMEDIR="/var/www/site"; cd "$SOMEDIR/app"
    – RoVo
    4 hours ago











  • @Fox ah of course, can't believe I missed that ... could I add it to the alias, e.g. somedir/app? (tried: answer no xD)
    – ThisGuyHasTwoThumbs
    4 hours ago











  • @RoVo I suppose that makes sense, create it as a var and then can use within the cd - ty :)
    – ThisGuyHasTwoThumbs
    4 hours ago










  • Also look up cdable vars and autocd in the bash manual (not sure if they can be combined, but one of them maybe useful)
    – muru
    3 hours ago












  • 3




    Even if aliases were expanded in operand positions this wouldn't do what you want, you'd end up with cd cd /var/www/site/app (note the double cd). Why not just use a variable?
    – Fox
    4 hours ago







  • 1




    export SOMEDIR="/var/www/site"; cd "$SOMEDIR/app"
    – RoVo
    4 hours ago











  • @Fox ah of course, can't believe I missed that ... could I add it to the alias, e.g. somedir/app? (tried: answer no xD)
    – ThisGuyHasTwoThumbs
    4 hours ago











  • @RoVo I suppose that makes sense, create it as a var and then can use within the cd - ty :)
    – ThisGuyHasTwoThumbs
    4 hours ago










  • Also look up cdable vars and autocd in the bash manual (not sure if they can be combined, but one of them maybe useful)
    – muru
    3 hours ago







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3




Even if aliases were expanded in operand positions this wouldn't do what you want, you'd end up with cd cd /var/www/site/app (note the double cd). Why not just use a variable?
– Fox
4 hours ago





Even if aliases were expanded in operand positions this wouldn't do what you want, you'd end up with cd cd /var/www/site/app (note the double cd). Why not just use a variable?
– Fox
4 hours ago





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export SOMEDIR="/var/www/site"; cd "$SOMEDIR/app"
– RoVo
4 hours ago





export SOMEDIR="/var/www/site"; cd "$SOMEDIR/app"
– RoVo
4 hours ago













@Fox ah of course, can't believe I missed that ... could I add it to the alias, e.g. somedir/app? (tried: answer no xD)
– ThisGuyHasTwoThumbs
4 hours ago





@Fox ah of course, can't believe I missed that ... could I add it to the alias, e.g. somedir/app? (tried: answer no xD)
– ThisGuyHasTwoThumbs
4 hours ago













@RoVo I suppose that makes sense, create it as a var and then can use within the cd - ty :)
– ThisGuyHasTwoThumbs
4 hours ago




@RoVo I suppose that makes sense, create it as a var and then can use within the cd - ty :)
– ThisGuyHasTwoThumbs
4 hours ago












Also look up cdable vars and autocd in the bash manual (not sure if they can be combined, but one of them maybe useful)
– muru
3 hours ago




Also look up cdable vars and autocd in the bash manual (not sure if they can be combined, but one of them maybe useful)
– muru
3 hours ago










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The bash shell has a CDPATH shell variable that helps you do this without an alias:



 $ CDPATH=".:/var/www/site"
 $ cd app
 /var/www/site/app


If there's a subdirectory of app called doc:



 $ cd app/doc
 /var/www/site/app/doc


With a CDPATH value of .:/var/www/site, the cd command will first look in the current directory for the directory path given on the command line, and if none is found it will look under /var/www/site.



From the bash manual:




CDPATH



The search path for the cd command. This is a colon-separated
list of directories in which the shell looks for destination
directories specified by the cd command. A sample value is
".:~:/usr".




Note that CDPATH does not need to be exported.






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The bash shell has a CDPATH shell variable that helps you do this without an alias:



 $ CDPATH=".:/var/www/site"
 $ cd app
 /var/www/site/app


If there's a subdirectory of app called doc:



 $ cd app/doc
 /var/www/site/app/doc


With a CDPATH value of .:/var/www/site, the cd command will first look in the current directory for the directory path given on the command line, and if none is found it will look under /var/www/site.



From the bash manual:




CDPATH



The search path for the cd command. This is a colon-separated
list of directories in which the shell looks for destination
directories specified by the cd command. A sample value is
".:~:/usr".




Note that CDPATH does not need to be exported.






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The bash shell has a CDPATH shell variable that helps you do this without an alias:



 $ CDPATH=".:/var/www/site"
 $ cd app
 /var/www/site/app


If there's a subdirectory of app called doc:



 $ cd app/doc
 /var/www/site/app/doc


With a CDPATH value of .:/var/www/site, the cd command will first look in the current directory for the directory path given on the command line, and if none is found it will look under /var/www/site.



From the bash manual:




CDPATH



The search path for the cd command. This is a colon-separated
list of directories in which the shell looks for destination
directories specified by the cd command. A sample value is
".:~:/usr".




Note that CDPATH does not need to be exported.






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The bash shell has a CDPATH shell variable that helps you do this without an alias:



 $ CDPATH=".:/var/www/site"
 $ cd app
 /var/www/site/app


If there's a subdirectory of app called doc:



 $ cd app/doc
 /var/www/site/app/doc


With a CDPATH value of .:/var/www/site, the cd command will first look in the current directory for the directory path given on the command line, and if none is found it will look under /var/www/site.



From the bash manual:




CDPATH



The search path for the cd command. This is a colon-separated
list of directories in which the shell looks for destination
directories specified by the cd command. A sample value is
".:~:/usr".




Note that CDPATH does not need to be exported.






share|improve this answer














The bash shell has a CDPATH shell variable that helps you do this without an alias:



 $ CDPATH=".:/var/www/site"
 $ cd app
 /var/www/site/app


If there's a subdirectory of app called doc:



 $ cd app/doc
 /var/www/site/app/doc


With a CDPATH value of .:/var/www/site, the cd command will first look in the current directory for the directory path given on the command line, and if none is found it will look under /var/www/site.



From the bash manual:




CDPATH



The search path for the cd command. This is a colon-separated
list of directories in which the shell looks for destination
directories specified by the cd command. A sample value is
".:~:/usr".




Note that CDPATH does not need to be exported.







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