Yesterday on the-list I was asking about some weird behavior about `test`, so it made me want to write about some other Bash scripting pitfalls which I have fallen into before. Maybe some of these you’ve run into before, maybe some you haven’t. Anyways, I hope you find something here helpful. Note that these apply [...]
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Feb
Changing Directories More Easily
Here is something I have in my Bash config that I have found useful these days. It defines a command called up that lets me move up a given number of directories. For example, up 2 is the same as cd ../.., and up 4 is cd ../../../.., and so on. function up() { cd [...]
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