How to make an “alias” for a long path?

Question

I tried to make an \"alias\" for a path that I use often while shell scripting. I tried something, but it failed:

myFold=\"~/Files/Scripts/Main\"
cd myFold
         


        

Answer 1

Another option would be to use a symbolic link. ie:

ln -s ~/Files/Scripts/Main ~/myFold

After that you can perform operations to ~/myFold, such as:

cp some_file.txt ~/myFold

which will put the file in ~/Files/Scripts/Main. You can remove the symbolic link at any time with rm ~/myFold, which will keep the original directory.