Question

I’m a newbie to Linux operating system
I need to do the following:-

I have multiple projects under “~/myprojects”

Think of like >ls ~/myprojects
project1 project2i newproject project_possible….

All my projects have a fixed structure see as below:-

ls ~/myprojects/

src lib inc common test_scripts

(all these are directories having some files in them

For navigating the current()
I want to do something like this in my bashrc file.

assign curr_project = “$1”
alias psrc=’cd ~/myprojects/curr_project/src/’
alias plib=’cd ~/myprojects/curr_project/lib/’

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You can use an environment variable to specify the current project and use the variable in your aliases:

current() {
    export CURR_PROJECT=$1
}

alias psrc='cd ~/myprojects/$CURR_PROJECT/src/'
alias plib='cd ~/myprojects/$CURR_PROJECT/lib/'

First you set the CURR_PROJECT by using

$ current project1

Then you call your alias to change directories:

$ psrc

Hope that helps.