Hi,
I was wondering if there is a way to substitute some text inside a command in the terminal. I don't think that to save an alias solves the problem because I think it is only for entire commands.
For example, I'd like to save "Music/GarageBand" as "gb" and then be able to write in terminal "cd gb/Project1" to directly go to the directory Music/GarageBand/Project1.
Thanks
MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 12.3
In your shell initialization script, you can define
gb=$HOME/Music/GarageBand
Then use
cd $gb/project1
An alternative approach is to create a symbolic link
cd $HOME
ln -s Music/GarageBand gb
Then when in your home folder, you can use
cd gb/project1
NOTE: with a symbolic link, gb is going to look like a file to the ‘ls’ command, and an Alias to the Finder.
In your shell initialization script, you can define
gb=$HOME/Music/GarageBand
Then use
cd $gb/project1
An alternative approach is to create a symbolic link
cd $HOME
ln -s Music/GarageBand gb
Then when in your home folder, you can use
cd gb/project1
NOTE: with a symbolic link, gb is going to look like a file to the ‘ls’ command, and an Alias to the Finder.
Text Replacement in Terminal
