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How can I set catalogs names shorcuts for not typing
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Hi,

There are more ways, here are 2:

1) Create and export a variable.

Put something like this in your .bashrc or .profile: export EVG="/home/<USERNAME>/Documents/work/Evg/biblatex".
After your next login you can do something like this: cd $EVG

2) Create an alias.

Put something like this in your .bashrc or .profile: alias cdevg="cd ~/Documents/work/Evg/biblatex".
After your next login you can do this: cdevg

Hope this helps.

Yeah, thanks! thats exactly what I did want )

There are other ways to do this (IMHO more elegant) by using the CDPATH variable in your shell. For example, you can use something like the following in your .bashrc file :-

export CDPATH=.:~:~/documents:~/ftps:~/bin:~/videos:~/pictures:~/bin:~/muzak:$PATH

which will allow you to change to the any of the mentioned directories simply by typing in, for example :-

$ cd muzak

from anywhere and you will change to the /home/username/muzak directory. It is similar to the PATH variable. Do a "man bash" (if you are using bash as your shell) to get all the info.

In your case you would need something like:-

export CDPATH=.~:~/Documents:~/Documents/work:~/Documents/work/Evg:~/Documents/work/Evg/biblatex

Thank you, ArfaSmif but this adds to many folders to the gloabal namespaces. For Example I have 14 folders in my Documents folder and want to have a shortcut only to one of them — if I use your method I'll get all the other 13 folders in the quick access

But can I make autocompletion work like with ~:

When I type and press Tab it expands to Can I have something like this: when I type and press Tab it expands to

Hi,

When using my first example (export EVG="/home/<USERNAME>/Documents/work/Evg/biblatex") that should work (it does on my side):

The ~ is expanded by bash.

Yeah, I did exactly what you said, but it doesn't expand, though I can use and go to the biblatex folder.

The behavior of TAB is following. When I type and press TAB, it changes to and when I type TAB does nothing

Hi again,

I think I misunderstood your question.

The variable (EVG in this case) should expand as well. If more 'things' are defined that start with a E, it will not expand (2xtab will show all that start wit E):

I'm not sure why the $E becomes \$E when you press tab. It could be a bash environment setting, but I wouldn't know which one.

BTW: It is good practise to always type the first 2 chars before pressing tab

absolutely true ...

Yeah, when I type and press TAB I get but if I type and press TAB even many times I get nothing