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Using alias of path in commands? (piefed.social)

submitted 9 hours ago by MolochHorridus@piefed.social to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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This is probably a very simple thing but I can’t find an answer, possibly because I don’t know what terms to use in search.

How do I use an alias of a path with mv or cp? Or even cd?

In /etc/bash.bashrc I have: alias docs=‘/media/docs

cd docs Gives “No such file or directory”

Yet: docs Gives “Is directory”

With alias docs=‘cd /media/docs’ and by typing docs I get into the directory. Obviously I can’t use that alias with mv or cp though.

Maybe this isn’t even an intended use of alias but still. Why doesn’t it work?

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[–] MolochHorridus@piefed.social 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

Thanks, but the problem with this is that I’ll type /media/docs/whatever much faster than hunt the ~ from my keyboard because I have to move my whole hand to do so.

It's altGr + ^ on my keyboard.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 hours ago

Highly recommend remapping common characters to easy-to-access hand movements. The keyboard is a tool to make things easier. I never use caps-lock, but I use esc all the time, so I regularly swap them (or just have a second esc bind).

[–] False@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That sounds inconvenient. I use ~ all the time. $HOME should point to the same dir in most cases though

[–] MolochHorridus@piefed.social 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Unfortunately $ also requires pressing the damned AltGr.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

have you looked at remapping a couple keys?

[–] MolochHorridus@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

I bound ~/ to one of my keyboards G-keys. Still not optimal placement wise but way better than the AltGr-route.