I use this often instead of chaining together multiple '../..'.
Also nice for when I use Zoxide to CD into a deep nested directory. I quickly found out unless you manually CD each hop, the different parent directories aren't added to your Zoxide DB. (I have come across snippits to recursively CD into all directories in a path to "prepopulate" Zoxide).
I made this to jump directly from say `/foo/bar/batz/abc/123` to `/foo/bar/batz`.
alias ..="cd .."
alias ...="cd ../.."
alias ....="cd ../../.."
Just keep typing period and hitting enter until you get where you want according to your prompt. I haven't found much use for more than four periods. One period would be well-defined but useless.
Somewhat along the same lines, as I regularly SSH to other hosts with the same network filesystem mounts, 'scd' starts an SSH session on a remote host in the same directory.
#!/bin/bash
# SSH to remote system and change into same (current) directory
DIR=$(pwd)
ssh -t $1 "cd $DIR; bash -l -i"
i made `rr` (remote run) for a use-case very similar to this.
it expects the remote fs is mounted under .../ssh/HOSTNAME/ and runs any command in that dir on the remote host.
if it is not the root which is mounted, looks up mtab for the remote base directory.
https://gist.github.com/GNOMES/6bf65926648e260d8023aebb9ede9...
I use this often instead of chaining together multiple '../..'.
Also nice for when I use Zoxide to CD into a deep nested directory. I quickly found out unless you manually CD each hop, the different parent directories aren't added to your Zoxide DB. (I have come across snippits to recursively CD into all directories in a path to "prepopulate" Zoxide).
I made this to jump directly from say `/foo/bar/batz/abc/123` to `/foo/bar/batz`.