I've sub folders named 1 to 1000 under some path, lets say /path/to/mydir. So I want to create custom alias so some approach such that when I enter 105 then it should take me to /path/to/mydir/105. behind the screen i need to execute
cd /path/to/mydir/105 command.
what changes should i need to do on .bashrc to do this?
Can someone help me on this?
for ((i=1;i<=1000;i+=1)); do alias "$i=cd \"/path/to/mydir/$i\""; done
EDIT following comment on other anwser, find not needed to retrieve directories at first level: using glob expansion
for d in /path/to/mydir/*/; do
dn=${d%/} # remove trailing /
alias "${dn##*/}=cd \"$d\"" # remove path prefix from directory for alias name
done
alias alone on a slow terminal.I think if you don't use alias you could just make a simple script to do that
#!/bin/bash
cd /path/to/yourdir/${1}
and name that with go and put in your $PATH I recommend you to put it in the /usr/local/bin/ path cause that's a path that user should have write privilege and put their executable binaries/scripts in.
so you could just
$go 105
to change your dir to the dir you want.
in fact you could also do that with alias according to tldp
#!/bin/bash
shopt -s expand_aliases
alias go='cd /path/to/your/dir/${1}'
and with this
source ./testalias.sh
go 1234
But you still needed to type a command go for this
/usr/bin
if ( $_ eq numeric) cd /path/to/yourdir/$_ Could you please let me know is there any such logic I can write in .bashrc?
go() { cd "/path/to/mydir/$1";}Use find and parse the output through awk, constructing an alias command that can be stored in a file srcfile
find /path/to/mydir -type d | awk -F\/ '{ print "alias "$NF"=\"cd \\\""$0"\\\"\"" }' > srcfile
Then in the bash.rc file:
source srcfile
This will load the aliases into your bash shell.
