Powerful of Linux CD Command for Admins,Devlopers,Testers,Supporters

Powerful of Linux CD Command for Admins,Devlopers,Testers,Supporters

CD is one of the most frequently used command during a UNIX and LINUX session. I am going to add some useful practical examples of CD command. This will increase your productivity and make it easier to navigate the directory from CLI.

CDPATH: If you are performing CD to sub directories  of a any specific parent directory and you can set the CDPATH variable to the parent directory and perform CD to to the sub directories without Giving parent directory path.

Example:

To make this change permanent, add export CDPATH=/etc to your

~/.bash_profile

export CDPATH=.:~:/var:/usr:/etc

Directory stack

dirs: Display the directory stack

pushd: Push directory into the stack

popd: Pop directory from the stack and cd to that directory

Automatically Correct Mistyped Directory Names using shopt -s

Use shopt -s cdspell to correct the typos in the cd command

automatically as shown below