Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?
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alias cd1='cd $(ls -1t --group-directories-first | head -1)'
Of course getopt (the options parser in ls) allows us to use the unique portion of long options, so we can abbreviate the command significantly!alias cd1='cd $(ls -1t --g | head -1)'
sed -n 's/^d.\{50\}//p'
cd $(ls -lt | grep ^d | head -1 | cut -b 51- )
... will go to $HOME if no subdir is found. I mistook the '1' in flatcap's comment for a "l", so "total 58024" won't happen.cd $(ls -1t --g | head -1)
... will return "cd: mrubbit.png: Not a directory" or something similar if no subdir is found This will work and it is safer, but it's not really a one-liner anymore, and it clobbers whatever you had set in $OD:alias cd1='OD=$(ls -lt |sed -n "/^d/ {s/^.\{51\}//p;q;}"); [ "$OD" ] && cd "$OD" || echo "no subdirs" >&2'