Comments on: mika’s advent calendar – day 1: hashes in the zsh http://michael-prokop.at/blog/2008/12/01/mikas-advent-calendar-day-1/ ... and even if no one reads it Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:44:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: mika http://michael-prokop.at/blog/2008/12/01/mikas-advent-calendar-day-1/comment-page-1/#comment-13960 mika Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:29:36 +0000 http://michael-prokop.at/blog/?p=878#comment-13960 @daniel: environment variables can be overriden too easily by accident and they might trigger unwanted behaviour in programs. And if you think that aren’t enough arguments for you :) – check out:

mika@grml ~ % cd ~deb
mika@grml ~deb % pwd
/var/cache/apt/archives
mika@grml ~deb % cd ~www
mika@grml ~www %

regards,
-mika-

]]> By: daniel http://michael-prokop.at/blog/2008/12/01/mikas-advent-calendar-day-1/comment-page-1/#comment-13959 daniel Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:20:48 +0000 http://michael-prokop.at/blog/?p=878#comment-13959 why is that better than environment variables?

]]> By: mika http://michael-prokop.at/blog/2008/12/01/mikas-advent-calendar-day-1/comment-page-1/#comment-13958 mika Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:05:53 +0000 http://michael-prokop.at/blog/?p=878#comment-13958 @novoid: but only if you use ‘setopt autocd’ :)

regards,
-mika-

]]> By: novoid http://michael-prokop.at/blog/2008/12/01/mikas-advent-calendar-day-1/comment-page-1/#comment-13957 novoid Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:02:33 +0000 http://michael-prokop.at/blog/?p=878#comment-13957 As a matter of fact, you do not even have to type in “cd ~hashname”!

You can simply stick to “~hashname” (without the “cd “) whenever you want to jump into a
“hashed” directory ;-)

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