Hey bash, are you stupid?

Question

Inspired by the nice things about Amiga, I came thought on this, are there any good reasons why we don't have bash enter directories when we type their name ?De[TAB]Desktop/[ENTER]Bash: Desktop/: Is a directoryUser:Yes, I know, what do you think I want to do wit it ?Run it? Are you stupid? It's not a program!Move it? Are you stupid? That'd take another argument!Rename it? Are you stupid? That'd also take another argument.Delete it? Are you stupid? Why'd I want something so dangerous to be so easy, also, that requires the recursive argument.Gee.. I dunno then.User:cd Desktop/Bash: Ohh

gjvc · Accepted Answer

Add this line to your ~/.bashrc shopt -s autocd (~/.bashrc is for options and settings, ~/.bash_profile is for environment variables.)

pforret · Answer

Bash allows you to [TAB] into a folder because the program/script you want to execute might be there, just 1 or more [TAB]s further. It's not bash's fault that you try to do something that doesn't make any sense.
De[TAB]
Desktop/[TAB]
Desktop/run_this_script.sh[ENTER]

Hey bash, are you stupid?

Add this line to your ~/.bashrc shopt -s autocd (~/.bashrc is for options and settings, ~/.bash_profile is for environment variables.)

Bash allows you to [TAB] into a folder because the program/script you want to execute might be there, just 1 or more [TAB]s further. It's not bash's fault that you try to do something that doesn't make any sense.De[TAB]Desktop/[TAB]Desktop/run_this_script.sh[ENTER]

Add this line to your ~/.bashrc
`shopt -s autocd`
(~/.bashrc is for options and settings, ~/.bash_profile is for environment variables.)

Bash allows you to [TAB] into a folder because the program/script you want to execute might be there, just 1 or more [TAB]s further. It's not bash's fault that you try to do something that doesn't make any sense.
De[TAB]
Desktop/[TAB]
Desktop/run_this_script.sh[ENTER]