<Update> I meant to include my reason for not just using CDPATH. I play around in directory trees like: $HOME/<projectname>/(source|target)/<modulename>/CPAN_structured_tree where I am usually in the bottom of one project's source tree, and occasionally want to jump to the sister-directory in the target or into the source of a different project. I use shell history and a few exported variable names for directories.
</Update>

For background, I ran across this cute alias which I never use: 

realias='$EDITOR ~/.aliases; source ~/.aliases'

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In the case you give, I use exported variables and cd. I've never felt the need to have my environment evolve so rapidly that I couldn't use an editor in a spare screen to edit my .bashrc. So I would just: 
$ export tmp=/tmp
$ cd $tmp

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To make this more suited to your style, I'd blend this together into something like: 
function reexport { 
  echo export "$*" >> $HOME/.exports; 
  source $HOME/.exports; 
}

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Given that you perl, perhaps you can stand some dollar signs.

Be well,
rir

In reply to Re: Appending in a switch case statement by rir
in thread Appending in a switch case statement by diffredential

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