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Mr Green

Iso Developer

Registered: 2010-11-07

Posts: 3,748

Extended cd [bash] command

Working on a little script that will allow user to get to the directory a given file is in.

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# 

if [ -z "$1" ];
then 
  echo $"Usage: $0 <file_name>"
  exit
fi

filey=$(find $HOME -name "$1" -type f)

if [ $filey ]; 
then
  # Going to put cd command on next line
  # cd <path_to>/$filey
  echo $(dirname $filey)
else
  echo "Not found..."
  # Exit here
  exit
fi

At the moment it only displays a message if file/directory is found.

Not to sure of the way to go yet either open a terminal in the directory of the found file or run cd from .bashrc as a function.

Hoping someone might find a use for it

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Mr Green

Iso Developer

Registered: 2010-11-07

Posts: 3,748

Re: Extended cd [bash] command

Version 2 using a case command to sort output from search

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# cdx  


list()
{
for i in $filey; do
  echo ${i}
done
}

cd_dir()
{
echo $(dirname $filey) 
}


[[ $# -eq 0 ]] && echo "Usage: $0 <file_name>" && exit 1

filey=$(find $HOME -type f -name "$1")

case $(echo $filey | wc -w) in
  0) echo "Not found..." # File not found
  ;;
  1) cd_dir # Cd to found directory
  ;;
  *) list # List if you find more than one file with same name
  ;;
esac

exit

Do need a way to check 0 hits and decide if not found or only command given

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