Comments on: Three ways to alias your way to upvotes! http://blog.superuser.com/2011/04/18/three-ways-to-alias-your-way-to-upvotes/ The Super User Community Blog Mon, 05 Dec 2016 07:34:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.6 By: Ben Finney http://blog.superuser.com/2011/04/18/three-ways-to-alias-your-way-to-upvotes/#comment-60 Wed, 20 Apr 2011 07:16:25 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=858#comment-60 Along with not really understanding why the answer is so popular (it’s correct and helpful, sure, but hardly life-changing), I’m a little baffled that the question was so popular.

Do people find themselves using ‘cd’ so very often that a shortcut is needed? We have the ability to talk about files in a different directory, folks. If you can specify the path to ‘cd’ there, and you’re not going to want to be there very long, why not specify the filesystem path of the file instead and stay where you are?

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