Just realized I can just use “…” to go back two directories! Is this a zsh feature?
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Just realized I can just use “…” to go back two directories! Is this a zsh feature?
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I accidentally discovered that both “cd …” and “…” work, and moreover, I can add more dots to go back further! I’m using zsh on iTerm2 on macOS. I’m pretty sure this isn’t a cd feature. Is this specific to zsh or iTerm2? Are there other cool features I just never knew existed??

I’m so excited about an extra dot right now.

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Really? Doesn’t seem to work when I use bash:

bash-3.2$ cd a/b/c/d/e
bash-3.2$ ...
bash: ...: command not found
bash-3.2$ cd ...
bash: cd: ...: No such file or directory
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Because you need to ln -s ../../ ... first (I’m joking)

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