[openbeos] Re: J

You might want to use
query "((name=$1)&&(BEOS:TYPE=application/x-vnd.Be-directory))"
except it seems to skip folders which don't have the attribute :^)
btw, do you know $CDPATH ?

François/


En réponse à Alan Ellis <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> 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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