[forge-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Created: (SEAMFORGE-340) Support "cd ..." to go up to grandparent directory, etc.

Thu Sep 29 11:52:26 EDT 2011

Support "cd ..." to go up to grandparent directory, etc.
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                 Key: SEAMFORGE-340
                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/SEAMFORGE-340
             Project: Seam Forge
          Issue Type: Feature Request
          Components: Builtin Plugins
            Reporter: Jonathan Fuerth
            Priority: Optional

Ancient versions of Novell Netware supported arbitrary numbers of dots to specify how far up the directory hierarchy to go. Every dot you added meant one more level up:

| Novell Shell | Bourne Shell |
| cd .. | cd .. |
| cd ... | cd ../.. |
| cd .... | cd ../../.. |

It was handy, but didn't catch on meaningfully in any other CLI I'm aware of. The only downside I can think of to implementing this is that once you get used to it in Forge, it will be annoying to do without in in bash/zsh/etc.

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