That works yes.
A bit much to typw though. Don't know if I'd save much time from first doing
a locate and the manually typing the cd [result] string :)

Martin S

2007/5/11, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>:
>
> On Fri, 11 May 2007 14:34:44 +0200, Martin S wrote:
>
> > Just recently tried using
> >
> > locate foo.conf | cd
> >
> > to automagically move to the directory in which I've saved foo.conf
> > Of course it didn't work as you can't cd to /bar/foo.conf
> >
> > I didn't find a way to dropping the actual file name from the result of
> > locate.
>
> cd $(dirname $(locate foo.conf))
>
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> Neil Bothwick
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Regards,

Martin S