[SOLVED] CDPATH not working

markush · 11-11-2012, 01:29 PM

Hello,

I've read about CDPATH in this http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:sof...igation#cdpath Howto at SlackDocs. But it doesn't work here.

I've read the manpage for bash and think it should work like described in the Howto.

By default $CDPATH is not set, is this correct?

Now I have

Code:

CDPATH=$CDPATH:/tmp/

put in my .bashrc.

Code:

markus@samsung:~$ echo $CDPATH
:/tmp/

After sourcing .bashrc I thought that I could cd into directories in /tmp/ with only the name of the directory, but this doesn't work. I have also tried it with directories in my ~/ directory, this doesn't work as well.

Any Ideas?

Markus

sycamorex · 11-11-2012, 01:49 PM

Hi Marcus,

I think that the description entry in the wiki is misleading (although the examples are correct). My apologies. I'm going to clarify it right now.

You do not include the directories that you want to cd into. You include the parent directory.

From bash:

Quote:

This is a colon-separated list of directories in which the shell looks for destination directories specified by the cd command.

HTH

markush · 11-11-2012, 01:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sycamorex

Hi Marcus,

I think that the description entry in the wiki is misleading (although the examples are correct). My apologies. I'm going to clarify it right now.

You do not include the directories that you want to cd into. You include the parent directory.

From bash:

HTH

Thanks sycamorex for the quick reply,

I did this, I have for example several directories in /tmp/ named /tmp/build-ocaml, /tmp/build-trayer and so on (used for Slackbuilds). When I type

Code:

build-o[TAB]

the line is not expanded.

Markus

sycamorex · 11-11-2012, 02:02 PM

Weird. It works for me on 2 machines with stock Slackware 14 bash:

Code:

.bashrc
CDPATH=$CDPATH:/tmp/

Code:

echo $CDPATH
:/tmp/

Code:

ls /tmp
abc/  bcd/  cde/  def/  i3-sycamorex.cFpmeG/  plugtmp/

cd a[TAB] expands to abc.

Code:

cd abc/
/tmp/abc

markush · 11-11-2012, 02:06 PM

Is it possible that it has something to do with bash-completion? I don't have bash-completion installed.....

But otherwise referring to the manpage for bash, CDPATH should work like you described it.

It's really weird.

Markus

sycamorex · 11-11-2012, 02:23 PM

I think you've nailed it. It looks like the CDPATH variable itself does not provide TAB completion. It will correctly cd into a said directory as long as you remember its exact name, eg:

Code:

cd build-trayer[Enter]

but to get the TAB completion you do need to install bash-completion.

markush · 11-11-2012, 02:24 PM

Yup, that works.

Thanks for the clarification.

Markus