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Comment by sant0sk1 | Hacker News Reader

I wrote a bash function yesterday which allows you to

    cd ...

to move up two directories instead of having to

    cd ../..

Want to move up 4 directories?

    cd .....

Pretty useful, imo. Check it out

http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2009/09/cd-up-up-up/

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In zsh, you (1) don't need to write a function, and (2) you don't need to type "cd" to switch directories.

  setopt auto_cd

  alias -g ...='../..'
  alias -g ....='../../..'
  alias -g .....='../../../..'
  alias -g ......='../../../../..'

Then you can just type "..." and go up two directory levels, and so on.

That's pretty cool. I've shied away from zsh for some time as I'm very comfortable with bash, but a lot of evidence has been coming to me lately that makes me want to give it a go.

I have just an alias for this (without the cd) in my ~/.bashrc:

  alias ..='cd ..'
  alias ...='cd ../..'
  alias ....='cd ../../..'
  alias .....='cd ../../../../'

Yah that's a nice way to fix it as well, but I prefer to be able to continue using the "cd" command since it is burned into my brain.

Can't remember where I found this, but this function allows you to go up any level of dirs without specifying an infinite number of aliases.

Usage: up {x} where x is the number of directories you want to go up (e.g., 3)

function up() { local arg=${1:-1} local dir="" while [ $arg -gt 0 ]; do dir="../$dir" arg=$(($arg - 1)); done cd $dir >&/dev/null }

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