How can I cd to an alias directory in the Mac OSX terminal

Question

Is there a way to get into an alias directory from shell with the command \"cd\" ? It always returns that \"htdocs\" isn\'t a directory.

Edit: I made the shortcut with t

Answer 1

All i want is to open my terminal and type cd htdocs so that i can work from there.

The easier approach is probably to ignore the links and add the parent directory of your htdocs directory to the CDPATH environment variable. bash(1) will check the contents of the CDPATH environment variable when you type cd foo to find the foo directory in one of the directories listed. This will work no matter what your current working directory is, and it'll be easier than setting symbolic links.

If the path to your htdocs is located /srv/www/htdocs/, then you could use CDPATH=/srv/www. Then, cd foo would first look for /srv/www/foo/ and change to it if it exists; if not, then it would look for foo in the current working directory and change to it if it exists. (This might get confusing if you have multiple htdocs directories on your system; in that case, CDPATH=.:/srv/www would let you change into a child directory easily but still use the /srv/www/htdocs/ version if no ./htdocs directory is present.)

You can add the CDPATH=/srv/www line to your ~/.bashrc file so it works every time you start a terminal.