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Old 10-29-2011
Define Alias for Changing Directory to Another One
Hello Friends is it possible to define an alias (say named as COMMAND) to pick a part of line and change my directory to picked. For example

when I type
COMMAND mfong@vhl.gov.nd/homefolder/hhk/ADS/
it would do
cd /homefolder/hhk/ADS/

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