Automatically chdir to vagrant directory upon "vagrant ssh"

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Rob Kinyon picture Rob Kinyon · Jul 25, 2013 · Viewed 16.7k times · Source

So, I've got a bunch of vagrant VMs running some flavor of Linux (centos, ubuntu, whatever). I would like to automatically ensure that a "vagrant ssh" will also "cd /vagrant" so that no-one has to remember to do that whenever they log in.

I've figured out (duh!) that echo "\n\ncd /vagrant" >> /home/vagrant/.bashrc will do the trick. What I don't know is how to ensure that this only happens if the cd command isn't already there. I'm not a shell expert, so I'm completely confused here. :)

Answer

httpete picture httpete · Sep 19, 2014

I put

echo "cd /vagrant_projects/my-project" >> /home/vagrant/.bashrc

in my provision.sh, and it works like a charm.

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