[openbeos] J

Some time ago, I posted a few line script function called "j" - a tool for 
jumping to directories.
And, as far as it goes, it is a pretty good script. 
The problem that I have had with it is that sometimes I want to "j" to a 
directory that does not have a unique name.
Currently, j has real issues with that (to put it nicely).
So I finally got frustrated enough and put a little more effort into j. Here is 
the result:

function goThere() {
    if [ -d $1 ] ; then
            echo $1
            cd $1
            return $?
        fi
    return 1
}

function j() {
declare -a choices
choices=(`query "name=$1" | tr '\n' ' '`)
case "${#choices[@]}" in
    "0") return 1;;
    "1") goThere ${choices[@]} ; return $?;;
    *)   PS3='Choice: '
         select curChoice in "${choices[@]}"
         do
            goThere $curChoice
            if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
                break
            fi
        done
esac
}   



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