Changing directories with fd

[weiying-chen]

I found out I can change directories with fd like this:

cd $(fd directory)

Is this the only way? Or there are other alternatives?

[tmccombs]

Basically. Changing directories is something thay has to be done by the shell, so it can't be done directly by fd. You need fd to output the result and capture it then pass it to cd. What you have is the somplest way to do that.

[tavianator]

You might be interested in fuzzy-finders like https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

[kranurag7]

Hey there,
I was going to GitHub discussion and found this discussion. I want to achieve something similar.

I'm using kustomize and it only takes present working directory as input.

Below is all the kustomization.yaml files and I want to run kustomize edit fix --vars by entering into all those directory and running the command kustomize edit fix --vars

Manually, I can do it something like this: cd config/certmanager and kustomize edit fix --vars. After this I've to come back to root directory and go into other directory and run the same command as above.

If kustomize would take any directory as input then I could have achieve it using fd kustomization.yaml --exec kustomize edit fix {//} and that would have worked but please note that this command requires you to run in that directory where kustomization.yaml is present meaning I'll have to cd into it.

$ fd kustomization.yaml
config/certmanager/kustomization.yaml
config/crd/kustomization.yaml
config/default/kustomization.yaml
config/manager/kustomization.yaml
config/rbac/kustomization.yaml
config/webhook/kustomization.yaml
hack/observability/kustomization.yaml

Here's what I've tried but I was not able to achieve it.

fd kustomization.yaml --exec-batch 'cd {//}; kustomize edit fix --vars {//}'

My thought process behind this was that it will cd into each directory one by one and run the command. Is my thinking correct here? Is it possible to achieve this using fd?

[tmccombs]

I think you would need to do something like

fd kustomization.yaml --exec bash -c 'cd {//}; kustomize edit fix --vars'

[kranurag7]

Thank you very much, this worked for me.
I think this way, we don't have to worry about coming back to the parent directory once again because each exec is done in a new sub-shell.