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Re: cd to directory in paste buffer : shell function
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:28:45 -0800, wrote:
>On 1/13/06, zzapper <david@tvis.co.uk> wrote:
>> I often want to cd to a (DOS) path that I've copied from some Windows App.
>
>The cygpath program will do the slash conversion for you:
>
>cdclipboard()
>{
> unixpath=`cygpath -f /dev/clipboard`;
>
> if [ -d "$unixpath" ]; then
> cd "$unixpath"
> fi
>}
echo "that's cute"
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