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Automatically run a command upon entering a certain directory?

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I'm using virtualenv with django and so I have say two different directories say:

~/Development/site1

~/Development/site2

So to set up my enviroment I normally go to ~/Development/site1 then run source bin/activate. Is it possible to have that command run automatically when I cd into one of these directories?

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answered 2 Years ago tisglitter · Accepted Answer

You could put this in your .bashrc to redefine the "cd" command:

cd()

{

    [ -z "$*" ] && builtin cd $HOME

    [ -n "$*" ] && builtin cd "$*"

    [ -f "./bin/activate" && source ./bin/activate

}