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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Fast yet simple way to navigate directories Post 302631473 by IKE0000 on Friday 27th of April 2012 11:06:12 AM
Old 04-27-2012
Scrutinizer, many thanks for your editing, it looks much nicer and professional.
And thank itkamaraj for the link. I'm new to here and I need some time to get myself familiar with tags.

Scrutinizer, you are right,
Code:
sc /etc *scripts

might get unexpected results if there are more than one folder name ending with string "scripts".
So usually I will provide more information to make sure I get the unique result:
Code:
sc /etc n*scripts

or
Code:
sc /etc sys*/n*scripts

Indeed,
Code:
sc / somedir

takes a long time, so better avoid searching from root.

And for mark54g,
Alias is easy to use, but it does has its limitation:
You need to pre-define all your frequently used folders in .bash_profile.
But what if the folder you want to access is not defined in .bash_profile?
What are you gonna do?
For me, I will use FIND command to search the full path of folder, and filter out some unwanted results with GREP and CD it.
And that's exactly what has been done in this shell.
 

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mount_ffs

MOUNT_FFS(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					      MOUNT_FFS(8)

NAME

     mount_ffs, mount_ufs -- mount a Berkeley Fast File System

SYNOPSIS

     mount_ffs [-o options] special node

DESCRIPTION

     The mount_ffs command attaches the Berkeley Fast File System on the special device on to the file system tree at point node.  Both special
     and node are converted to absolute paths before use.

     The mount_ufs form of the command is meant for backward compatibility only.  Fast File Systems should no longer be listed as type ``ufs'' in
     fstab(5) and instead should be listed as type ``ffs''.

     This command is normally executed by mount(8) at boot time.  The options are as follows:

     -o      Options are specified with a -o flag followed by a comma separated string of options.  See the mount(8) man page for possible options
	     and their meanings.

SEE ALSO

     mount(2), unmount(2), fstab(5), mount(8)

     M. McKusick and G. Ganger, "Soft Updates: A Technique for Eliminating Most Synchronous Writes in the Fast File System", Proceedings of the
     FREENIX track: 1999 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, pp. 1-17, June 1999.

HISTORY

     A mount_ffs command appeared in NetBSD 1.1.

BUGS

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