A time-saving way to change directory to sibling directories
Abstract
Introducing the shell variable CDPATH for more convenience when changing directories using cd.
How often do you execute cd ..? If you add .. to your shell’s environment variable CDPATH, then you won’t need to write cd .. so often anymore.
Imagine your ~/.config/ directory contains these subdirectories:
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├── bash
├── git
├── nvim
└── zsh
You’re inside ~/.config/zsh/ and now would like to change directory to ~/.config/bash/. You’d probably do cd .. and then cd bash, right? Imagine you could omit the cd .. and do just cd bash. From within ~/.config/zsh/! Rather than from ~/.config/! By setting the variable CDPATH you can jump directly to siblings without having to visit the parent first.
Read on to find out more.