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I'm working in PowerShell right now, and wanting to know how to cd into a directory without typing out the entire length of the directory name.
Let's say I have a really long directory name, abcdefghijklmnop, and I'm too lazy to type cd abcdefghijklmnop when I want to go to that folder. How could I shorten this up? I can list a single directory with grep, ls | grep abc, so I was thinking of using this same logic to apply to cd, essentially changing directory into the output of the grep command, assuming there is only 1 output.
cd | grep abc
Obviously that doesn't work, but is there a way to do this, or maybe a better way of achieving this without grep than I know?
amallard
Posted 2017-08-17T15:45:02.560
Reputation: 147
I found something else and removed my comment. – DrZoo – 2017-08-17T15:59:53.043
I'm not totally familiar with PowerShell but try this: cd $(ls | grep STRING). That's the last guess I have. Otherwise I'd use tab completion. I'd honestly find that to be easier than typing that command. I'm not entirely sure if this will work. Another question is, if you're on Windows 10, have you thought about using the built in Bash feature they now have? – DrZoo – 2017-08-17T16:09:14.120
That's not working either. I can't install any plugins on this machine, so I'm looking for an out-of-the-box solution – amallard – 2017-08-17T16:10:37.410
Right now I'm only concerned with a PowerShell solution. I just put that comment in there because I've often been working in Linux and wanted to know how to do something similar, so if there was a universal solution then that'd be nice. But for the sake of what I'm trying to do right now, just an out-of-the-box PowerShell solution – amallard – 2017-08-17T16:12:45.357