New Command (alias)

[Bill Vance]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2014, Nils Kassube wrote:

> Charles T. Bell wrote:
>> I have always used the number of double periods to move up.
>> cd ../../otherdir
>> That command would move me up 2 directories and into a third
>> that is in the second directory up. I am not aware of a limit.
>> I have found it a useful command since DOS.
>> Oh, and "ls" works the same way when checking for directories to
>> move to.
>
> Sure there are a lot of other tricks about shell commands and if you
> want to explore the shell, it may be useful to look at the bash manual:
> <http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/>. If you are not too young,
> you may prefer a printed book like "Learning the bash shell" by Cameron
> Newham & Bill Rosenblatt.
>
> OTOH, it seems a bit OT here to me because it isn't specific to Kubuntu.
> Nowadays most things can be done with GUI tools which is more intuitive
> for most people. And it would be specific to Kubuntu. :)
>
>
> Nils

Well, there's allways dialog, xdialog, and kommander,
et al, where all that might be useful.  As to the
Bash ref, I've been through that a few times, and
though it's better than most such, a lot of little
tricks 'n tips are somewhat obscured by the sheer
mass of data.

Bill