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by tedunangst 926 days ago
Because I don't want to constantly update 6000 symlinks as I add and remove directories in other locations.
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hibbelig 926 days ago
The other option was to put them into CDPATH instead... 6,000 of them?

(I guess you are using an alternative to CDPATH, but you haven't said.)

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tedunangst 925 days ago
No, because you put the parent directory in CDPATH. If I have funstuff/blogs/pics, funstuff/blogs/foods, funstuff/blogs/cats, etc., I put funstuff/blogs in CDPATH and now cd cats just works. If I created a pile of symlinks, I would have to individually create one symlink each for ~/pics, ~/foods, ~/cats, etc. And also type cd ~/cats.
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hibbelig 925 days ago
I see. Thank you, I missed that aspect.

Of course, adding a symlink “~/f” that points to “funstuff” would work around the limitation, at the expense of typing two more characters. Four more if you count the leading “~/”.

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