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Re: cd as much as possible

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On Thu, 10 Mar 2016, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:

> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 22:45:09
> From: kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com>
> To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>,
>     tlikonen@iki.fi
> Subject: Re: cd as much as possible
> Resent-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 03:45:45 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> 
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 2:11 AM, Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> wrote:
>>
>> I don't know about zsh but here's a sh/bash function:
>>
>>     mycd() {
>>             local dir=$1
>>             while ! cd -- "$dir"; do
>>                     dir=$(dirname -- "$dir")
>>             done
>>     }
>>
>
> This is exactly what I wanted. Thanks. It works in zsh too.
>
> raju
>
The find command probably can handle this maybe in a shorter form.  I 
don't know as much syntax of that command as I'd like otherwise this could 
probably written in a single line of code.

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cd as much as possible kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> - 2016-03-10 06:40 +0100
  Re: cd as much as possible Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2016-03-10 08:20 +0100
    Re: cd as much as possible kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> - 2016-03-11 04:50 +0100
      Re: cd as much as possible Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2016-03-11 13:10 +0100
        Re: cd as much as possible Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2016-03-11 13:30 +0100
  Re: cd as much as possible kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> - 2016-03-11 05:10 +0100
    Re: cd as much as possible Jens Bauer <jens-lists@gpio.dk> - 2016-03-16 03:10 +0100
      Re: cd as much as possible kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> - 2016-03-18 05:20 +0100

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