That works yes. A bit much to typw though. Don't know if I'd save much time from first doing a locate and the manually typing the cd [result] string :)
Martin S 2007/5/11, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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)) -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 010: Reserved for future mistakes by our developers
-- Regards, Martin S
