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Go to the next sibling directory in alphabetical order

Terminal - Go to the next sibling directory in alphabetical order
for d in `find .. -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d | sort`; do if [[ `basename $d` > `basename $PWD` ]]; then cd $d; break; fi; done
2009-05-16 17:33:34
User: gwiener
Functions: cd
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Go to the next sibling directory in alphabetical order

Sometimes you have to browse your way through a lot of sub-directories. This command cd to the next sub-directory in alphabetical order. For example, if you have the directories "lectures/01-intro", "lectures/02-basic", "lectures/03-advanced" and so on, and your PWD is "02-basic", it jumps to "03-advanced".

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Comment by flatcap 213 weeks and 3 days ago

This isn't working for me. Can anyone tell me why? I'm using bash on both CygWin and Ubuntu. It doesn't work in either place.

Comment by xizdaqrian 213 weeks and 3 days ago

Okay, got it now. The done is missing from the end of the command sequence. "...fi; done" should be on the end.

Comment by xizdaqrian 213 weeks and 3 days ago

about half the characters:

cd ../"$(ls -AF ..|grep '/'|grep -A1 `basename $PWD`|tail -n 1)"

my ls(1) at least says its already sorted alphabetically if no flags are given and since files can't have '/' in their names...

Comment by linkinpark342 213 weeks and 3 days ago

ls -v or sort -v would be appropriated here.

Comment by log0 213 weeks and 3 days ago

xizdaqrian - Thanks, I added the "done".

linkinpark342 - I like your solution! Do you mind if I'll post updated commands later? It should work for "prev" as well.

Comment by gwiener 213 weeks and 2 days ago

gwiener, go for it. previous directory would just change the -A1 to -B1 and the tail to head.

cd ../"$(ls -AF ..|grep '/'|grep -B1 `basename $PWD`|head -n 1)"
Comment by linkinpark342 213 weeks and 2 days ago

If you don't add -v to ls (or sort) you will have the following probleme. file100.tex will be listed before file30.tex.

http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/More-details-about-version-sort.html

Comment by log0 213 weeks and 1 day ago

Hi guys, I propose this one :

cd $(printf '%s\n' ../*/ | awk '/'"${PWD##*/}"'/{getline;print;}')

;)

Comment by sputnick 211 weeks and 4 days ago

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