Re: [LUG] Command-line: jump to arbitrary parent dir from deeply nested dir (bash)

[Gordon Henderson <gordon+lug@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 3 Sep 2013, wes wrote:

> On Tue, 3 Sep 2013, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> > On Tue, 3 Sep 2013, Philip Hudson wrote:
> > > On 3 Sep, 2013, at 12:19 pm, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> > >
> > > > Curiously enough it doesn't work for me.
> > > >
> > > > gordon @ yakko: alias up 'cd `pwd | sed \'s|\(.*/\!:1/\).*|\1|\'`'
> > > > Unmatched `.
> > >
> > > Interesting. Let's see, possible root causes.
>
> my guess would be that the backslash_quote shell variable isn't set:
>
> brwtys:~ [19] set |grep backslash_quote
> brwtys:~ [20] alias up 'cd `pwd | sed \'s|\(.*/\!:1/\).*|\1|\'`'
> Unmatched `.
> brwtys:~ [21] set backslash_quote

Yup. That was it. Quoting... The universal shell 'gotcha' ..

Gordon

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