Dec 16, 2016 · The Bash command cd - prints the previously used directory and changes to it. On the other hand, the Bash command cd ~- directly changes to the previously used directory, without echoing anyt...

whenever you run a script on your login shell, a new subprocess is spawned and the script execution is done in a subshell.Once the script completes, the subshell exits and you are returned to the login shell.Hence whenever you do a cd through a script,the directory is changed to the path specified by cd, but by the time script finishes you come ...

Nov 14, 2012 · With any POSIX implementation of cd, you can use the -P option to do this. $ help cd ... -P use the physical directory structure without following symbolic links ... You can see it in action here: $ mkdir foo $ ln -s foo bar $ cd -P bar $ pwd /tmp/tmp.WkupF2Ucuh/foo If you want this to be the default behaviour, you can either create an alias for cd, like so: alias cd='cd …

I'm writing a bash function to jump into my last editted folder. In my example, the last edited folder is titled 'daniel'. The bash function looks fine. >>:~$ echo $(ls -d -1dt -- */ | head...

How do I get the path of the directory in which a Bash script is located, inside that script? I want to use a Bash script as a launcher for another application. I want to change the working directo...

Nov 8, 2020 · I can navigate down in directory using cd in the terminal. How do I navigate back up if I go too far?

The cd in your script technically worked as it changed the directory of the shell that ran the script, but that was a separate process forked from your interactive shell. A Posix-compatible way to solve this problem is to define a shell procedure rather than a shell-invoked command script. jhome () { cd /home/tree/projects/java }

Jun 8, 2015 · In a shell script how would I find a file by a particular name and then navigate to that directory to do further operations on it? From here I am going to copy the file across to another directory...

In man bash we can read in Shell Builtin Commands section (online doc): Unless otherwise noted, each builtin command documented in this section as accepting options preceded by - accepts -- to signify the end of the options.

At least as far as the second error message goes (bash: cd: desktop: No such file or directory), this is a duplicate of How do I change the current working directory to the Downloads directory? or Terminal doesn't go to /home/username/downloads.