Entries tagged “bash”

So one of the downsides to symfony is traversing the file system. Lately I’ve had to do this a lot so I decided to write some bash functions to make this easier. Here’s one I call goto which works as such:

`goto` filename.ext

Feel free to make this better, or if there exists a built-in that I know nothing about tell me about it.

Here’s the function:

goto () {
  FILE=`find . -iname $1|head -1`
  DIR=`dirname $FILE`
  cd $DIR
}

Update

I changed the function to take care of this syntax:

goto default/../actions.class.php (amongst other things) will now find app/frontend/modules/default/actions:

goto () {
    FORMATTED_STR=`echo $1|sed -e 's|/../|/*/|g'`
    FILE=`find . -ipath *${FORMATTED_STR}*|head -1`
    DIR=`dirname $FILE`
    cd $DIR
}