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Running a program automatically on entering and exiting a directory

Running a program automatically on entering and exiting a directory

Post by Zachary Bro » Sun, 15 Jun 1997 04:00:00



I use bash under linux on my 386, with the following function in my
.profile, which looks for .go and .come files on exiting and entering a
directory, and if it finds them, executes them:

cd=()
{
    if [ -O .go ]; then
        source .go;
    fi;
    builtin cd $*;
    if [ -O .come ]; then
        source .come;
    fi

Quote:}

What I would like is for it to *also* search each parent directory all
the way back to the / directory, until it finds a .Go or .Come, and
execute those as well. That way, in addition to having specific
configuration based on directory, it could also be based on whole trees.

I wouldn't ask this question, except that all my own attempts have been
too slow because of my lack of skill. Could someone help me out with an
efficient solution?

Zack

 
 
 
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1. automatically running a program on entering and exiting a directory

I use slackware, with the bash shell.

I've found it a great help to have my system automatically configure
itself based on what directory I'm in. The way I do this is as follows:

in my ~/.bashrc file, I have

if test -e /usr/local/bin/cd
then
    alias cd='. /usr/local/bin/cd';
fi

Then, in /usr/local/bin/cd, I have

#!/bin/bash
if test -e .go;
then
    . .go;
fi
"cd" $1
if test -e .come;
then
    . .come;
fi

What all this allows me to do, is to have two files in every directory:
.go and .come. .come is executed whenever I cd into a directory, and .go
is executed when I cd out of the directory. This has a million and one
uses, including having specialty paths and local command configurations
that optimize operations on the data contained in the directory.

The problem is that if the /usr/local/bin/cd command gets deleted after
login, I suddenly lose the ability to change directories until I unalias
cd.

What I am looking for is a more robust way of handling this whole task,
or at least some way to alias the cd command to execute /usr/local/bin/cd
if it exists, and the default cd command if it doesn't.

Any takers?

Zack

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