Since it’s an environment variable (alias has a different definition in bash
), you need to evaluate it with something like:
cd "${myFold}"
or:
cp "${myFold}/someFile" /somewhere/else
But I actually find it easier, if you just want the ease of switching into that directory, to create a real alias (in one of the bash
startup files like .bashrc
), so I can save keystrokes:
alias myfold='cd ~/Files/Scripts/Main'
Then you can just use (without the cd
):
myfold
To get rid of the definition, you use unalias
. The following transcript shows all of these in action:
pax> cd ; pwd ; ls -ald footy
/home/pax
drwxr-xr-x 2 pax pax 4096 Jul 28 11:00 footy
pax> footydir=/home/pax/footy ; cd "$footydir" ; pwd
/home/pax/footy
pax> cd ; pwd
/home/pax
pax> alias footy='cd /home/pax/footy' ; footy ; pwd
/home/pax/footy
pax> unalias footy ; footy
bash: footy: command not found