[openbeos] Re: J

That's super flippin' cool!

2 bugs.

If you have N choices, and you choose N + 1, then it takes you to /boot/home.

You cant jump to a dir with a space in it's name.

Alan


 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
> }
>
>
>
> Comments, thoughts, issues, questions?
>
>
>

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