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| === Tips and Tricks === | === Tips and Tricks === | ||
| - | If you don't know what the parent folder's name is, but you do know the child folder's name is, you can use ''cd */foo/** to get there. | + | If you don't know what the parent folder's name is, but you do know the child folder's name is, you can use ''cd */foo'' to get there. |
| Examples: I'm in a ports system (OpenBSD, Gentoo, etc), and I know I'm looking for package name mplayer, but I don't know what category it's in: | Examples: I'm in a ports system (OpenBSD, Gentoo, etc), and I know I'm looking for package name mplayer, but I don't know what category it's in: | ||
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| If two of the same child directories exist in more than one of the parent folders, then ''cd'' will go into the first one it finds. | If two of the same child directories exist in more than one of the parent folders, then ''cd'' will go into the first one it finds. | ||
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| + | It supports globbing as well: | ||
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| + | <code> | ||
| + | cd */*mplayer* | ||
| + | </code> | ||
