OS 10.5 - Bash Terminal Question?

macunkie · macunkie #1 (**permalink**)

11-09-2007, 08:29 AM

On two of my systems I'm still running Tiger. In my .profile I have the command shopt -s cdable_vars which for example enables me to set up individual directory short cuts. For example: docs='/Volumes/Library/Webserver/Documents', which in turns allows me to (from my term.), to navigate to the Documents directory by issuing the command "docs." I recently did a clean install of Leopard and have my .profile set up the same as Tiger. But the "docs" command doesn't seem to work?

Thanks for any input!

MacUnkie

macunkie · macunkie #2 (**permalink**)

11-10-2007, 07:29 AM

I found my problem. I have my OS partitioned to a directory called "powerbookOSX." With Tiger I could set the shopt -s cdable_vars command to navigate to "/volumes/library". With 10.5 it seems I have to include, "/volumes/powerbookOSX/Library" in order to navigate to my needed directory. Who knew?

MacUnkie.

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macunkie #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Nov 09, 2007 Location: Northern Nevada Posts: 5 Mac Specs: MacBook Pro 2.66 ghz i7 - 8 gigs ram	11-09-2007, 08:29 AM On two of my systems I'm still running Tiger. In my .profile I have the command shopt -s cdable_vars which for example enables me to set up individual directory short cuts. For example: docs='/Volumes/Library/Webserver/Documents', which in turns allows me to (from my term.), to navigate to the Documents directory by issuing the command "docs." I recently did a clean install of Leopard and have my .profile set up the same as Tiger. But the "docs" command doesn't seem to work? Thanks for any input! MacUnkie
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macunkie #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Nov 09, 2007 Location: Northern Nevada Posts: 5 Mac Specs: MacBook Pro 2.66 ghz i7 - 8 gigs ram	11-10-2007, 07:29 AM I found my problem. I have my OS partitioned to a directory called "powerbookOSX." With Tiger I could set the shopt -s cdable_vars command to navigate to "/volumes/library". With 10.5 it seems I have to include, "/volumes/powerbookOSX/Library" in order to navigate to my needed directory. Who knew? MacUnkie.
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