how to create a path alias?

Question

So "cs" will be mapped to "/College/" so that I can run the command "cd cs"?

Check out `z`; it's a dynamic `cd` to the directories you use most: https://github.com/rupa/z — miku, Feb 02 '11 at 00:51

score 12 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 02 '11 at 00:51

I believe you are asking about how to create a symbolic link (or symlink) like:

ln -s College cs

Although, there are other ways to speed up your workflow, such as setting the CDPATH:

export CDPATH=.:~/:/College/

Or you could even make "cs" an alias that will perform the action "cd /College/":

alias cs='cd /College/'

If you did the above, you would type cs instead of cd cs to get there.

See also

ln - man page for the ln command from the POSIX 2004 standard
symlink - man page for the C function to create symlinks from the POSIX 2004 standard

Thanks! the "ln -s College cs" – funk-shun Feb 02 '11 at 00:54 — funk-shun, Feb 02 '11 at 00:54

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