There are several projects i am currently working on that have deep directory trees. For example:
/home/tom/project/sr/svn.studentrobotics.org/slug/init-br/build_armeb/staging_dir/armeb-linux-uclibc/include/linux/spi
Ive found my self getting increasingly irritated by having to type variations on :
cd ../../../../..
So set about writing an alias to simplify this. After a little investigation, I discovered Bash functions and came up with this:
xs () { if [[ -z "${1}" ]]; then cd ..; elif [ ! $(echo "$1" | grep -E "^[0-9]+$”) ]; then echo ARG1 NAN; else for ((i=0;i<=$1 ;i+=1)); do cd ..; done; fi }
By adding this line to your .bashrc file (or similar) the command xs (note its next to cd) allows one to travel up the directory tree, examples:
xs 5 -> cd ../../../../..
xs 2 -> cd ../..
xs -> cd ..
Hope this is usefull to someone.
