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Old 05-23-2006
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While I don't understand exactly why you need a script to issue a cd command, why just not create an alias? As in


Code:
 alias 'cdv=cd /des/proj/$1'

then you'll be able to type cdv vega - or whatever project you have in /des/proj - and be taken to /des/proj/vega.