[openbeos] Useful function
- From: "Michael Phipps" <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 21:42:41 -0500
This may be pretty trivial, but I thought it might help someone out there...
Getting around in a source tree can be something of a pain. I find myself
frequently wanting to be in a totally different directory.
Colleagues of mine, on the Unix boxes where I work, run a cron job to do an "ls
-lR" nightly and store that in a text file. They created a command called "j",
which jumps to the directory that you specify. Personally, I find that to be
sort of hackish... And BeOS has a better way - queries. I put this into my
.profile...
function j() {
for a in `query "name=$1"`
do
if [ -d $a ]
then
cd $a
echo $a
break
fi
done
}
Works for me. Short, simple, to the point. It will go to the *FIRST* occurence
of a directory. A clever person could certainly modify this to list a menu of
choices, which is what the original 'j' does. Since I don't need it yet, I
haven't done it. ;-)
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