Any shortcut for “cd ..”?

Question

Is there any shortcut for cd ..?

Answer 1

Not by default (There might be some exceptions to this), there isn't. But if you use the alias command you can create a shortcut like this:

alias ..="cd .."

This will allow you to use the command .. to do cd ...

Answer 2

I find this useful:

up() { local p= i=${1:-1}; while (( i-- )); do p+=../; done; cd "$p$2" && pwd; }

For example, up 4 = cd ../../../..

As a bonus, `up 4`/path/to/file works in a similar way to ../../../../path/to/file.

Answer 3

I use alias …='cd ..' in my .bashrc file. Unicode rules ;)

Answer 4

Try Cd Deluxe for a greatly improved cd command. It supports things like "cd ..." and "cd ...." and so on in order to quickly navigate upwards.

Answer 5

My bashrc file contains

alias ..="cd .. && ls -lG"

as well as

alias ,,="pushd .. && ls -lG"

Answer 6

After doing a

bind '"\eu":"cd ..\C-m"'

you can cd .. by pressing Alt-u. I used to use this on chdir championships ;-)

If you want the whole swift-chdir suite

ALT+u cd ..
ALT+n enter next dir for selection
ALT+p enter previous dir for selection
ALT+SPC choose selected dir
ALT+l list subdirectories and highlight selection

just include this in your .bashrc

swiftcd-status() {
    echo -n -e "\r\0033[1A\0033[J"
}

swiftcd-contents() {
    find "$swiftcdpath" -maxdepth 1 -executable -type d
}

swiftcd-setdir () 
{ 
    swiftcdpath=$PWD
    swiftcddirnum=1
    swiftcddircount=`swiftcd-contents|wc -l`;
    swiftcd-status
}

swiftcd-pd () 
{ 
    (( --swiftcddirnum <= 0 )) && swiftcddirnum=$swiftcddircount;
    swiftcd-switch $swiftcddirnum
    swiftcd-status
}

swiftcd-updir () 
{ 
    cd ..;
    swiftcd-setdir
}

swiftcd-list () 
{ 
    local redOn="$(echo -e '\0033[31m\0033[1m')"
    local redOff="$(echo -e '\0033[m')"

    swiftcd-status
    ((  swiftcddircount > 1 )) && { 
        echo
        echo $(swiftcd-contents|sed 's!^'"$swiftcdpath"'!!'|sed $swiftcddirnum' s/\(.*\)/'"$redOn"'\1'"$redOff"'/')
    } 
}

swiftcd-nd () 
{ 
    (( ++swiftcddirnum > swiftcddircount )) && swiftcddirnum=1;
    swiftcd-switch $swiftcddirnum
    swiftcd-status
}

swiftcd-switch() {
    (( $1 <= swiftcddircount && $1 > 0 )) && cd $(swiftcd-contents|sed -n $1' p')
}

bind '"\e ":"swiftcd-setdir\C-m"'
bind '"\ep":"swiftcd-pd\C-m"'
bind '"\eu":"swiftcd-updir\C-m"'
bind '"\en":"swiftcd-nd\C-m"'
bind '"\el":"swiftcd-list\C-m"'
swiftcd-setdir

Answer 7

Try autojump: autojump on github

This will not only shorten the cd command into 'j' but also shorten the characters needed for typing the folder you want to jump into.

If you always cd into the folder /home/foo/Projects/thenextfacebook you can just do 'j face' and there you are. It learns automatically which folders are the most important ones for you and after using it for a month now I can say that it is very accurate.

Answer 8

Activate the autocd option. It will let you type .. for cd .. and will actually let you use any directory as a command name and will cd to it:

shopt -s autocd

For the curious, the same exists for zsh:

setopt auto_cd

Answer 9

I use this one since I type too fast and often miss the space bar:

alias cd..="cd .."