How do you cd into the first available folder without typing out the name?

plumb_pete

I was recently in a predicament where I was inside a folder, and I wanted to cd to a sub directory folder. There was only one folder, inside this folder and it was a really long name. Home (I am here) | | --> /reallylongnamefolder Is there any way of going into that folder instead of typing out: cd reallylongnamefolder

Originally asked by Arian Faurtosh on Stack Exchange (askubuntu) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

I would advice either to type first few letters and pressing tab . Bash has autocomplete feature that is really useful. If it is only directory in in current path just pressing tab will fill whole directory. Typing in cd and pressing tab twice will display all options in current directory. tab is generally really useful in bash as you have accessible almost all executables at one or two keypresses. cd * as suggested above works only if the directory is first in the listing and not hidden. If there is file alphabetically before your directory this cd won't change your directory at all.

Full answer by masozravapalma: https://askubuntu.stackexchange.com/a/454697 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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