I am using Windows and Ubuntu in parallel and do console stuff on both of them.
On Windows I can do a
C:\Users\Thomas>cd..\..
C:\>
However, on Linux this does not work, neither with backslashes nor with forward slashes.
21:17:10 $ cd../..
bash: cd../..: No such file or directory
Since I often make that mistake, I have tried to define an alias in .bash_aliases
for that situation:
alias cd../..='cd ../..'
alias cd..\..='cd ../..'
When I start a new bash, I get
21:16:26 $ bash
bash: alias: `cd../..': invalid alias name
How would I set up aliases for cd..\..
and cd../..
correctly?
The cd..\..
seems to have problems with the escape character:
21:39:43 $ cd..\..
bash: cd....: command not found
It does not work, even if I define another alias for cd....
.
Best Answer
/
and\
are among the characters which cannot appear in a Bash alias name. Fromman bash
:As a workaround, you can switch to Zsh, which allows both: