looking for command that would CD in first dir found.

Daniel Simard — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:13:35 GMT

I would like to know how i could pipe the result of a directory search to 'CD' so that upon finding the directory, it automatically goes into it.

for example, i'm looking for directory called 'foobar', i know i have it somewhere, maybe even in more than 1 place, what i want to do is search for it

find / -name "foobar" -type d

AND, once it finds the location, the 'find' command displays where it found it, but i want to go further in my initial command and automatically CD to it.

find / -name "foobar" -type d | cd
(that doesn't work)

i've tried | cd %1 or $1 or $0,

how can this be done?

Re: looking for command that would CD in first dir found.

Ivan Ferreira — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:17:35 GMT

You can use:

cd $(find / -name "foobar" -type d)

That is called command substitution.

Also, remember that the find command may find more than one directory with the same name, then you must filter the results somehow, for example:

cd $(find / -name "foobar" -type d | head -1)

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looking for command that would CD in first dir found.

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