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Typing "cd.." in Linux terminal instead of "cd .."

I come from MS-DOS background, where it is permitted to type cd.. (without the space between cd and ..) instead of cd ... The Linux terminal, however, finds cd.. objectionable.

Is there a way to make Linux terminal understand cd.. to mean cd ..?

I'm using Ubuntu.

And I am well aware that this is a rather silly problem, but I have cd.. committed to muscle memory (since early childhood, my brain has been wired that way) and I've been making that mistake at least twenty times every day, for several years now, ever since I started using Linux on a regular basis.

Solution

  • You could create an alias:

    alias cd..="cd .."

    If you add this to some file that's loaded whenever you log in (e.g., .bashrc if you're using bash), you'd get the effect of having this alias permanently available.