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A different way to do the usual
..="cd .."
and endless chains of...="cd ../.."
types of aliases:These take the number of directories that you want to move up as an argument (e.g.
.. 3
), otherwise they move you up one directory when used with no arguments.Thanks for sharing, likely will implement this!
There is a shell option for this (at least in zsh):
setopt autocd
. This allows you to change directories while omitting the cd in front