Automatically cd into directories?

Question

In the terminal You use cd ../../........ to get to wherever you want,

But I am lazy, I am wondering if it is possible to automatically cd into the directories if the command is simply the directory.

The terminals obviously know it's the directory because you get the output of

$ ../
bash: ../: Is a directory

So is it possible to hijack this message to automatically cd into that directory?

lol that is lazy. Just be careful some direcotires and executables share the same name, that's why typing cd is better. — coteyr, May 20 '13 at 23:07

score 20 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 12 '20 at 14:37

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Add shopt -s autocd to your ~/.bashrc.

Also, you might want to run man shopt in terminal for more useful options.

edited Jun 12 '20 at 14:37

Community

answered May 20 '13 at 22:56

demure

Yes. This Works perfectly. I can also use cd foldername in order to change directory in the common way but, how can I remove such functionality and revert to default? Thanks in advance. – Geppettvs D'Constanzo May 20 '13 at 23:23
shopt -u autocd -- read the link man. – coteyr May 20 '13 at 23:38
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info bash --index-search='shopt' or Gnu Bash Reference - Shopt – LantzR May 20 '13 at 23:51
this prints out cd -- /directory/path is there a way to silence that? – Fuseteam Feb 21 '20 at 14:12
@Fuseteam You can use the full cd command and not get output. There is a good reason that this shopt shortcut prints output -- so you don't end up running irrevocable commands after having changed dirs accidentally. – demure Feb 22 '20 at 15:53
but i know i cded and the full path is always shown..... at the same time the convenience of autocd is hard to pass by..... – Fuseteam Feb 22 '20 at 23:24

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