Re: ca - New bash command proposal

[Chet Ramey]

Rolf Brudeseth wrote:
> Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>
>>
>> ca() { (cd "$@" && pwd -P); }
>>
>> Andreas.
>>
>>   
> That works if I want the path to a directory, but it does not let me
> operate on files within the directory.

Once you have the pathname to a directory, you have dozens of tools
available to operate on its contents.

Chet

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