how to get file path without the filename itself im trying to find my .csv files then cd into their directory: find Documents/notes -type f -name "*.csv" | head -1 | xsel -b this copies the first file dir into my clipboard and i’d like to then run: cd $(xsel -b) but ofcourse I can’t …
How to explain a weird cd behavior on macOS? My system is macOS 13.2.1, the shell is oh-my-zsh (same behavior on bash). I found a weird behavior on cd command. It changes the current directory to a wrong one. This is not caused by the soft link, because there is no directory in the right …
ZSH — cd into directory without full path name https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25802017/bash-shell-search-for-subfolder-in-current-dir-and-cd-into-it would like to implement this, as I don’t want to tabcomplete. when I type the command: cd `find . -name test -type d` I get this error: find: ./usr/sbin/authserver: Permission denied I’ve tried cd’ing with fzf and ranger. but it’s all a mess. Also I …
Automatically list the contents of a directory when i cd into it only if it's a sub-directory of $HOME From a reddit thread I found this short snippet you can add to your .bashrc that automatically shows the list of contents of a dir you’ve cd‘d into: cd() { builtin cd "$@" && ls } …
Why shouldn't a user cd to a directory using absolute path without rx to all its ancestors? On Windows, it seems that if the user has read/write permission to the lev5 directory, but no permission at all for all its ancestors, cd c:lev1lev2lev3lev4lev5 still works. On Linux, even if I give the user full permission …
Re-cd into current directory I am in a directory which is a symlink me@hostname:/home/me$ ls -al the_link -> actual_a actual_a actual_b actual_c me@hostname:/home/me$ cd the_link me@hostname:/home/me/the_link$ Now while I’ve had my shell open, some other process changed the symlink from the_link -> actual_a to the_link -> actual_b and possibly even did rm -rf actual_a. If …
Xterm cd command not working in launch option When I launch xterm with the following command: xterm -e ‘cd ~’ -hold A new xterm window pops up saying: xterm: Can’t execvp cd ~: No such file or directory After which the xterm window is still in my current directory, where I can run cd ~ …
"cd" in a function works, except when it doesn't The first thing I do after cd’ing to a directory is to use "ls", as I imagine is the case for a lot of people. So I decided to define a function in my .bashrc to do both together. This is what I came up with: …
"xargs" not sending argument to "cd" via stdio I am seeing "xargs" behaviour that seems to be quite unexpected, in my experience. I use "ls" to find a matching folder name and sending it to "cd" using "xargs". I get the message that the folder doesn’t exist. If I don’t use "xargs", however, the "cd" …
Cannot cd into directory even though group has permissions I’m aware that there are other similar questions, but nothing in there solved my issue. gitlab-runner@my-machine:~$ groups gitlab-runner my-user gitlab-runner@my-machine:~$ sudo ls -l /home total 16 drwxrwsr-x+ 16 my-user my-user 4096 Feb 13 09:22 my-user # … other users’ homes omitted … gitlab-runner@my-machine:~$ sudo ls -l …
How to use substitute with cd command in Linux We recently migrated from HP-UX B.11.31 to Linux 3.10.0-1160.15.2.el7.x86_64. I am trying to achieve the below (which worked in the earlier HP-UX system): $ pwd /global/app/opt/prod/ee/01/custo/src/ $ cd prod qa /global/app/opt/qa/ee/01/custo/src/ $ pwd /global/app/opt/qa/ee/01/custo/src/ Basically, it switches from prod to qa, maintaining the relative directory structure. …
How to get recent places in terminal/shell? Is there any way to get a list of the most recent ‘places’ (directories) that have been navigated in terminal (osx)? I mean, I’d like to open my terminal, type some command, get the last 2 or 3 places I’ve been, and go there. Something like what the …
Changing directory by changing one early word in a pathname How do I change to a near-identical path with a different low-level parent? If you’re working in for instance ~/foobar/foo/data/images/2020/01/14/0001/ and need to get to the same path in bar instead of foo, how can you get there without typing out cd ~/foobar/bar/data/images/2020/01/14/0001/? Surely there’s …
What is an "alternative directory name" in CDPATH for the cd command? In the cd, bash help page: The variable CDPATH defines the search path for the directory containing DIR. Alternative directory names in CDPATH are separated by a colon (:). A null directory name is the same as the current directory. If DIR begins …
How to `cd` with word in the middle of a folder? I have workspace with many folders which all are consisted of long paths. For example: |- workspace |– this.is.very.long.name.context |– this.is.another.long.path.authors |– // 20 more folders |– this.is.folder.with.too.many.characters.folder They all start with same phase (this.is) which in my real case is 20 characters long …
libtool error cd: ../..: Not a directory Getting this very bizarre error from libtool when trying to install a package I built. It happens when running in a subdirectory (src/api) of the source tree: make[5]: Leaving directory ‘/users/galac/embray/src/slurm/src/api’ /bin/mkdir -p ‘/usr/local/lib’ /bin/bash ../../libtool –mode=install /usr/bin/install -c libslurm.la ‘/usr/local/lib’ ../../libtool: line 929: cd: ../..: Not a …
"cd" into /sys/kernel/debug/tracing causes permission change I’ve faced a really strange issue today, and am totally helpless about it. Some of the servers I manage are monitored with Nagios. Recently I saw a disk usage probe failing with this error: DISK CRITICAL – /sys/kernel/debug/tracing is not accessible: Permission denied I wanted to investigate and my …
Why did my folder names end up like this, and how can I fix this using a script? Sorry if this has an answer elsewhere, I’ve no idea how to search for my problem. I was running some simulations on a redhat linux HPC server, and my code for handling the folder structure to save …
How do you go back to the previous directory in Ranger? In Ranger you can go to a directory with g. When you type g it gives you a list of places you can very easily go. For example g, and then p takes me to /tmp. How do I get back to the directory …
cifs: Cannot cd into a directory For some reason I cannot cd into a particular remote directory for which I have access, it fails with: $ cd Data Services/ -bash: cd: Data Services/: Invalid argument This is how I mounted it: $ sudo mount -t cifs //big.acme.corp/network/ ~/z -o username=myuser,domain=mydomain,uid=$(id -u),gid=$(id -g),vers=1.0 Password for myuser@//big.acme.corp/network/: …
