Can I shorten my directory commands in ubuntu?

Posted by Spencer Cooley on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Spencer Cooley
Published on 2011-06-20T21:22:37Z Indexed on 2011/06/21 8:24 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 551

Filed under:
|
|

When working on a rails app I like to open all of my files through the command line like so

cd my_app
gedit app/views/user/show.html.erb

Is there a way that I could shorten this so that I could just write something like

gedit  user_views/show.html.erb

?

I would like the console to stay in the main directory, I just don't like having to type out app/controller/user_controler.rb every time I want to open the user controller. I know that I could just open the file with my mouse, but I feel like moving from keyboard to mouse breaks my focus a little bit. When I can just tap away at the keyboard it seems like I have a more smooth workflow.

© Super User or respective owner

Can I shorten my directory commands in ubuntu?

Posted by Spencer Cooley on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Spencer Cooley
Published on 2011-06-20T21:46:47Z Indexed on 2011/06/21 0:24 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 551

Filed under:
|

When working on a rails app I like to open all of my files through the command line like so

cd my_app
gedit app/views/user/show.html.erb

Is there a way that I could shorten this so that I could just write something like

gedit  user_views/show.html.erb

?

I would like the console to stay in the main directory, I just don't like having to type out app/controller/user_controler.rb every time I want to open the user controller. I know that I could just open the file with my mouse, but I feel like moving from keyboard to mouse breaks my focus a little bit. When I can just tap away at the keyboard it seems like I have a more smooth workflow.

© Super User or respective owner

Related posts about linux

Related posts about bash