Question

43

How do you cd into the first available folder without typing out the name?

rated 0 times [ 43] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 66045 / 3 Years ago, thu, june 24, 2021, 3:01:35

I was recently in a predicament where I was inside a folder, and I wanted to cd to a sub directory folder. There was only one folder, inside this folder and it was a really long name.

Home (I am here)

 |

 |

  --> /reallylongnamefolder

Is there any way of going into that folder instead of typing out:

 cd reallylongnamefolder

Answers

Only authorized users can answer the question. Please sign in first, or register a free account.

sipwing

Add To Favorites

Follow

Total Points: 245

Total Questions: 100

Total Answers: 118

Location: Aland Islands

Member since Thu, Oct 22, 2020

4 Years ago

sipwing questions

1 How to use Google Docs on Ubuntu desktop?

Sun, May 29, 22, 22:00, 2 Years ago

1 LO Writer: Easiest way to put line of words into table as rows (list)

Thu, Sep 23, 21, 02:25, 3 Years ago

1 How to cut part of line?

Fri, Jun 24, 22, 08:46, 2 Years ago

1 I got an error when trying to install a latex package trough tlmgr on ubuntu 20.04, verify_checksum: -5

Sat, Dec 25, 21, 19:22, 2 Years ago

1 Dualboot broken after Upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04

Fri, Dec 23, 22, 00:04, 1 Year ago

View All

answered 3 Years ago mocipe · Accepted Answer

I would advice either to type first few letters and pressing tab. Bash has autocomplete feature that is really useful. If it is only directory in in current path just pressing tab will fill whole directory.

Typing in cd and pressing tab twice will display all options in current directory.

tab is generally really useful in bash as you have accessible almost all executables at one or two keypresses.

cd * as suggested above works only if the directory is first in the listing and not hidden. If there is file alphabetically before your directory this cd won't change your directory at all.