Re: cd multiple levels up?

[Roman Rakus]

On 06/16/2010 01:04 PM, Clark J. Wang wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Peng Yu<pengyu.ut@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>    
> > Hello,
> >
> > I frequently need do cd multiple levels up. For example,
> >
> > cd ../..
> > cd ../../../../
> >
> > It would be convenient to type something like "cd 2" or "cd 4". Is
> > there a command for this?
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Peng
> >
> > My way:
> >      
> I wrote a compgen function for cd and it behaves like this: when you type
> `cd .....' on the command line and then press TAB, the command line becomes
> `cd ../../../../', then you can continue editing it to be `cd
> ../../../../other-dir/' and press ENTER.
>    
I'm against changing the behaviour of cd. It means, when you have 
directory name with dots, you will not be able to cd into it. Right, not 
directly like `cd ....', but using `cd ./....' will probably work. I 
just want to let you know about it :)

RR