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Use shopt to reference bash paths as variables

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Check out the bash command 'shopt -s cdable_vars' From the man bash page: If set, an argument to the cd builtin command that is not a directory is assumed to be the name of a variable whose value is the directory to change to.

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# in .bash_profile or other suitable location
shopt -s cdable_vars
export ne="/etc/network/"
 
# in the shell
source .bash_profile # (just this once, to reload the edited file)
cd ne
pwd  # /etc/network/

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