On Fri, 11 May 2007 14:34:44 +0200, Martin S wrote:

> Just recently tried using
> 
> locate foo.conf | cd
> 
> to automagically move to the directory in which I've saved foo.conf
> Of course it didn't work as you can't cd to /bar/foo.conf
> 
> I didn't find a way to dropping the actual file name from the result of
> locate.

cd $(dirname $(locate foo.conf))

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