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Commands using cd

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Terminal - Commands using cd - 168 results
cd /source/directory; tar cf - . | tar xf - -C /destination/directory
2009-02-17 02:09:04
User: SiegeX
Functions: cd tar
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Recursively move folders/files and preserve their permissions and ownership perfectly
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cd !$
2009-02-16 21:33:14
User: raphink
Functions: cd
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Recall last argument of previous command

!$ recalls the last argument of the previous command. This is very useful when you have to operate several operations on the same file for example.

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cd /usr/ports; grep -F "`for o in \`pkg_info -qao\` ; \ do echo "|/usr/ports/${o}|" ; done`" `make -V INDEXFILE` | \ grep -i \|ports@freebsd.org\| | cut -f 2 -d \|
2009-02-16 21:07:35
User: grep
Functions: cd cut grep
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find unmaintained ports that are installed on your system

only works for freeBSD where ports are installed in /usr/ports

credit to http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsTasks

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(cd /orignl/path tar -cf - . ) | (cd /dst/dir;tar -xvf -)
2009-02-16 09:36:34
User: unixmonkey991
Functions: cd tar
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tar pipe to copy files, alternate to cp -Ra

uses tar to dump files from /orignl/path to /dst/dir. i find tar's out more readable than cp, and it doesn't mess with modified dates.

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cd -
2009-02-16 02:37:50
User: chmouel
Functions: cd
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BourneShell: Go to previous directory

cd - would return to the previous directory of your cd command. NB: previous dir is always stored in $OLDPWD variable.

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cd \
2009-02-14 21:53:51
User: VonC
Functions: cd
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Get back to the root directory of a Windows drive (like c:\)

Useful to quickly get back to the Windows root directory of the current drive from a sub-directory within that drive.

Works also without space between 'cd' and backslash: 'cd\' or 'cd \' have the same effect

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cd /d d:\Windows
2009-02-13 16:06:48
User: piyo
Functions: cd
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Directly change directory without having to specify drive letter change command

In the Windows cmd.exe window, you can change the directory using cd, but if you need to go to a directory on another drive, you need to type in the drive letter and colon first (e.g. d:). With the /d on cd, you don't need this intermediate step.

cd /?

Tested on Windows XP

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cd XX YY
2009-02-10 13:20:11
User: yogsototh
Functions: cd
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replace XX by YY in the the current directory and cd to it. ( in ZSH )

If you are in /begin/path/with/XX/pattern

cd XX YY

will change your current directory to

/begin/path/with/YY/pattern

in ZSH

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cd //
2009-02-08 06:51:57
User: wbx
Functions: cd
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change directory into '//'

Please see sample output.

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find ./source -depth -print | cpio -cvo> /destination/source_data.cpio; cd /destination; cpio -icvmdI ./source_data.cpio; rm -rf ./source_data.cpio
2009-02-07 18:51:49
User: mnikhil
Functions: cd cpio find rm
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copying data with cpio

Copy data to the destination using commands such as cpio (recommended), tar, rsync, ufsdump, or ufsrestore.

Example:

Let the source directory be /source, and let the destination directory be /destination.

# cd /source

# cd ..

# find ./source -depth -print | cpio -cvo> /destination/source_data.cpio

# cd /destination

# cpio -icvmdI ./source_data.cpio

# rm -rf ./source_data.cpio

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cd /some/directory \&\& tar cf - | cd /some/directory \&\& tar xvf - */
2009-02-07 18:48:39
User: mnikhil
Functions: cd tar
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move files without actually touching them
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alias scd='dirs -v; echo -n "select number: "; read newdir; cd -"$newdir"'
2009-02-06 16:44:47
User: aoiaoi
Functions: alias cd echo read
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change to the selected directory for zsh users
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cd -
2009-02-06 09:35:18
User: m13a
Functions: cd
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Go back to the previous directory.
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cd
2009-02-06 02:37:17
User: YAK
Functions: cd
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Just take me to home directory

Just type 2 characters and enter, you will be back.

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cd ~/.purple/logs/; egrep -ri "i can haz|pwn|l33t|w00|zomg" * | cut -d'/' -f 3 | sort | uniq | xargs -I {} echo "Note to self: ban user '{}'"
2009-02-05 21:23:53
User: rhythmx
Functions: cd cut echo egrep sort uniq xargs
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Find and list users who talk like "lolcats"

Greps IRC logs for phrases and lists users who said them.

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C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /t:0A /k cd /d
2009-02-05 16:41:02
User: dmiff
Functions: cd
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[WinXP]Use as a shortcut in the SendTo menu to open a cmd window for a given folder.

This comes in handy for me when I am developing and testing Perl command line scripts.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490880.aspx

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cd /this/directory; for f in *; do ln -s `pwd`/$f /that/directory; done
2009-02-05 13:21:16
User: jonty
Functions: cd ln
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Link all the files in this directory to that directory

I find this handy for linking all the bin files in a package to /usr/bin or all the man files to /usr/share/man. You can replace * with */* to operate on all the files in subdirectories.

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cd -
2009-02-04 22:41:21
User: systemj
Functions: cd
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change to the previous working directory
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