Rolf Brudeseth wrote: > Andreas Schwab wrote: >> >> >> ca() { (cd "$@" && pwd -P); } >> >> Andreas. >> >> > That works if I want the path to a directory, but it does not let me > operate on files within the directory.
Once you have the pathname to a directory, you have dozens of tools available to operate on its contents. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/