Go to the next sibling directory in alphabetical order, version 2

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

Another version based on linkinpark342's contribution. 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".

By: gwiener

2009-05-18 06:41:37

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Go to the previous sibling directory in alphabetical order

Based on linkinpark342 suggestion. Sometimes you have to browse your way through a lot of sub-directories. This command cd to the previous 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 "01-intro".
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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cd ../"$(ls -F ..|grep '/'|grep -B1 `basename $PWD`|head -n 1)"

gwiener · 2009-05-18 06:44:02 8
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".
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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for d in `find .. -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d | sort`; do if [[ `basename $d` > `basename $PWD` ]]; then cd $d; break; fi; done

gwiener · 2009-05-16 17:33:34 13
cd Nst subdir
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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cdn() { cd $(ls -1d */ | sed -n $@p); }

huazhihao · 2014-04-15 07:47:13 7

What Others Think

cd ../"$(ls -vF ..|grep '/'|grep -A1 `basename $PWD`|tail -n 1)" http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/More-details-about-version-sort.html

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