using cd command in a file

[John Gordon]

ceblair at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Charles Blair) writes:

>   I would like to get to a directory /me/A/B/C/D by just typing j.  I tried
>creating a file j with cd /me/etc in it, then chmod +x j.  It didn't work.
>Thanks in advance.  I'm sure I'm overlooking something well-known.

	This would work better as an alias in your .cshrc or .profile.
Example: alias j 'cd /me/A/B/C/D'

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