Go home

Post by Nico Brailovsky @ 2011-05-19 | Permalink | 2 comments | Leave a comment

It really bothers me when people type "cd $HOME" or even worse, "cd /home/username". Why? Just type cd alone, it'll go home by itself.

Another useful cd tip, use "cd -" as an alias for "cd $OLDPWD" (oldpwd is the previous directory).


In reply to this post, Links 20/5/2011: Linux Kernel 2.6.39, MeeGo 1.2 Released | Techrights commented @ 2011-05-20T10:37:15.000+02:00:

[...] Go home [...]

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In reply to this post, fredso commented @ 2011-05-22T16:32:29.000+02:00:

rrrgh, I probably spent up to an extra hour the last 10 years by typing cd ~ !! :-D

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