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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