jscott@isis.cs.du.edu (James Scott) (05/03/91)
How do you use the environment variable CDPATH? I'm using
both ATT SysV.3's sh and ntcsh version 5.12.
Thanx,
James
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George Washington H.S., Denver gwhs@csn.orgtoma@swsrv1.cirr.com (Tom Armistead) (05/03/91)
In article <1991May2.203153.13842@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jscott@isis.cs.du.edu (James Scott) writes: >How do you use the environment variable CDPATH? I'm using >both ATT SysV.3's sh and ntcsh version 5.12. >Thanx, > James > >-- >========================================================================= >James Scott scott@gwhs.colorado.edu > jscott@isis.cs.du.edu >George Washington H.S., Denver gwhs@csn.org The CDPATH env var is used by the shell cd command. cd will search for the named directory along the path specified by CDPATH and if it finds it, will change to it. This allows you to change to directories without specifying the full path. Ex. $ CDPATH=$HOME:/usr:/usr/local;export CDPATH $ mkdir $HOME/testing $ cd / $ cd testing Tom -- Tom Armistead - Software Services - 2918 Dukeswood Dr. - Garland, Tx 75040 =========================================================================== toma@swsrv1.cirr.com {egsner,letni,ozdaltx,void}!swsrv1!toma
urban@cbnewsl.att.com (john.urban) (05/04/91)
In article <1991May2.203153.13842@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jscott@isis.cs.du.edu (James Scott) writes: >How do you use the environment variable CDPATH? I'm using >both ATT SysV.3's sh and ntcsh version 5.12. >Thanx, > James > Under the Bourne shell here's a little example ..... $ CDPATH=:/:/usr # <-Just like PATH, look in . first, then / then /usr $ export CDPATH $ cd /usr $ cd bin # <- finds bin under . so go there. $ pwd /usr/bin $ cd bin # <- does not find bin under . so now search for first # bin directory un the $CDPATH variable. /bin # <- automatically prints out where it found it. $ pwd /bin Sincerely, John Urban att!garage!jbu