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On Tue, 3 Sep 2013, Philip Hudson wrote:
On 2 Sep, 2013, at 4:47 pm, Simon Avery wrote:On 2 September 2013 14:23, Philip Hudson <phil.hudson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:alias up 'cd `pwd | sed \'s|\(.*/\!:1/\).*|\1|\'`' complete up 'p@*@`pwd|tr \'/\' \' \'`@'Surely that would be better aliased "back"? "up" is simply "cd .." - at least for me.Ah-ha! But then, I wouldn't have scared another tcsh user out of the closet. You see what I did there?But seriously... yes, you're right, that is the default alias assigned to 'up'. What can I say? I use '..', not 'up', for that. 'back' might indeed be semantically better.
Curiously enough it doesn't work for me. gordon @ yakko: alias up 'cd `pwd | sed \'s|\(.*/\!:1/\).*|\1|\'`' Unmatched `.default alias? Are there? I guess I've been using the same .cshrc for the past 20+ years, so might have missed that.
I have cd.. alaised to cd .. Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq