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Asked: 2026-05-20T18:21:37+00:00

I know there is probably no simple way to do this, but I thought

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I know there is probably no simple way to do this, but I thought I might put this out there. I have a directory that contains a subdirectory for each customer I deal with. I’d like to be able to type that customers directory name in, anywhere on the computer, and switch to that directory. In other words:

/dir/customers/
/dir/customers/customer1/
/dir/customers/customer2/
/dir/customers/customer3/

I’d like customer1, customer2, and customer3 to all be added to my ~/.bashrc file, and whenever I create a new customer, it would update to add that as well.

Any takers?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you add this code in your ~/.bashrc:

    for i in /dir/customers/*
do 
   alias $(basename $i)="cd '$i'"
done

    It will setup aliases for customer1, customer2, customer3 (all the sub directories of /dir/customers/) and every time you add a new customer (eg: customerN) it’s alias customerN will be added automatically you log in.

    eg: alias customer1 is cd /dir/customers/customer1 and alias customer2 is cd /dir/customers/customer2 so on…

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