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Explore Stack InternalWhile there are answers that do the exact action that you want, a more standard method for such purpose is to create symbolic link:
ln -s ~/web/www/project proj #use full path to dir! Then you could cdcd to dirthe directory using the name projproj:
cd proj This method is more flexible because you could access files using the short name without cdcd:
ls proj/ #note the endslash! vim proj/file.x While there are answers that do the exact action that you want, more standard method for such purpose is to create symbolic link:
ln -s ~/web/www/project proj #use full path to dir! Then you could cd to dir using name proj:
cd proj This method is more flexible because you could access files using the short name without cd:
ls proj/ #note the endslash! vim proj/file.x While there are answers that do the exact action that you want, a more standard method for such purpose is to create symbolic link:
ln -s ~/web/www/project proj #use full path to dir! Then you could cd to the directory using the name proj:
cd proj This method is more flexible because you could access files using the short name without cd:
ls proj/ #note the endslash! vim proj/file.x While there are answers that do the exact action that you want, more standard method for such purpose is to create symbolic link:
ln -s ~/web/www/project proj #use full path to dir! Then you could cd to dir using name proj:
cd proj This method is more flexible because you could access files using the short name without cd:
ls proj/ #note the endslash! vim proj/file.x