I find these little programs useful for moving up, over, or to the
root. You can make them into ados, but I just put them into my
profile.do. (That saves disk space, though that is not really a problem
any more.) The amount of typing they save is small, but they make
navigation natural, as I think of going up or over in the tree. (They
don't save much typing; they save thinking.) I could have also made a
-down- program, but it would just be the same as -cd-, so I didn't bother
with it.
Incidentally, I have arranged for the same commands to work in my command
prompt.
-- David
capture prog drop up
prog def up
/* move up in the directory tree */
cd ..
end
capture prog drop over
prog def over
/* move over in the directory tree */
cd ..\\`1'
end
capture prog drop root
prog def root
/* move to the root in the directory tree */
cd \\
end
David Kantor
Institute for Policy Studies
Johns Hopkins University [email protected]
410-516-5404
