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Re: alias in idl [message #44054 is a reply to message #44053]

Mon, 16 May 2005 13:04

Benjamin Hornberger is currently offline

Benjamin Hornberger
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Registered: March 2004

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Koh Leong Tah wrote:
> hi all,
> i have a directory which I happen to restore structures on pretty often
> and i was wondering if there's a way to have a shortcut name to that
> directory that i can setup, maybe in .idlinit?
> thanks,
> kl
>

If I understand it right, you want to CD to a certain directory without
typing the full directory name all the time. You could

1. Assign the full path to a string variable in your IDL startup file

mydir = '/very/long/full/path/to/dir'

Then you can just do

IDL> cd, mydir

2. Write a procedure

PRO cdmydir

cd, '/very/long/full/path/to/dir'

END

and the do

IDL> cdmydir

whenever you need it.

Cheers,
Benjamin

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