Hack 2. Use cd alias to navigate up the directory effectively

When you are navigating up a very long directory structure, you may be using cd ....\ with multiple ..\’s depending on how many directories you want to go up as shown below.

In the example below, ..4 is used to go up 4 directory level, ..3 to go up 3 directory level, ..2 to go up 2 directory level. Add the following alias to your ~/.bash_profile and re-login.

In the example below, cd….. (cd followed by five dots) is used to go up 4 directory level. Making it 5 dots to go up 4 directory structure is really easy to remember, as when you type the first two dots, you are thinking “going up one directory”, after that every additional dot, is to go one level up. So, use cd…. (cd followed by four dots) to go up 3 directory level and cd… (cd followed by three dots) to go up 2 directory level. Add the following alias to your ~/.bash_profile and re-login for the above cd….. (five dots) to work properly.