Question

I want to find a directory using grep then change current directory to the resulting directory.
For example:

$ ls | grep 1670 |

finds me directory haib12CJS1670. I am trying to do something like below:

$ ls | grep 1670 | cd

so that my directory is set to haib12CJS1670 at a single step. Obviously my way is not working. Any suggestions? Thank you

Answer 1

 cd `ls | grep 1670`

should get your cd to work (note, those are “back-ticks”)

An alternative approach (some would say preferred) would be to use the $ substitution. E.g.,

 cd $(ls | grep 1670)

though I can’t get this to work with the tcsh, it works fine with bash.

The first solution is shell-agnostic 🙂