How can I make an alias both cd and run a script or run a script in a non-home directory

Question

How can I make an alias either run a script in another directory or both cd and run the script?

I have commands in my .bashrc file to cd /home/myname/my_dir

and also

rake sunspot:solr:start

when I am in our app directory (that contains the /script subdirectory).

I have not been able to put either put the directory in the rake command or have the alias do a cd and then the rake command that it currently does.

For instance I attempted rake /home/my_dir/out_code_directory/sunspot:solr:start RAILS_ENV=test but that didn't work.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 16 '12 at 15:34

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alias rakesolr='cd dir; rake sunspot:solr:start; cd -'

works for me (in bash). Does that do what you need?

[ Ahh, semicolon ! Michael.]

edited Jan 16 '12 at 15:34

Michael Durrant

answered Jan 09 '12 at 17:36

Edd Steel

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:34

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Maybe can you edit your rake task ? Or you can make a new task that do a Dir.chdir and then execute the task wanted.

Edit : resource about execute a task within another here

edited May 23 '17 at 10:34

Community

answered Jan 09 '12 at 15:24

Thomas Guillory

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 09 '12 at 16:40

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Why not write a small bash script that cds then executes the script and have that run via an aliased command?

answered Jan 09 '12 at 16:40

Tyler K

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