Quickly navigate your filesystem from the command line

#1

Post by jeroenjanssens » Sat, Aug 17, 2013, 1:13 PM UTC

Quickly navigate your filesystem from the command line
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Re: Quickly navigate your filesystem from the command line

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Post by nkuttler » Sat, Aug 17, 2013, 2:12 PM UTC

That looks clever and useful, I wasn't expecting that. I do maintain a few aliases to jump around, but this looks more efficient. Not sure though if I'll like "jump foo" better than simply "foo" that I use now, but maintaining those aliases is a pita.

Re: Quickly navigate your filesystem from the command line

#3

Post by straphka » Sat, Aug 17, 2013, 2:15 PM UTC

This does look very similar to the setup I am using (https://github.com/huyng/bashmarks)

Re: Quickly navigate your filesystem from the command line

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Post by anjanb » Sat, Aug 17, 2013, 2:25 PM UTC

cool! I'm a command-line junkie as well. So, I've been doing something similar for quite a while.

Here's what I have done :

    function ccb ()
    {
        FOO=`pwd`;    
        echo >> ~/shortcuts.sh;    
        echo alias $1=\'pushd $FOO\' >> ~/shortcuts.sh;    
        echo >> ~/shortcuts.sh;    
        . ~/shortcuts.sh    
    }

simple but quite effective.

Now, all I have to do is type ccb and give a shortcut name to register a shortcut. Then whenever i want to jump to that directory, I just have to type the shortcut.

Eg :

    foo@bar deeply-nested-dir# ccb deepd
    foo@bar deeply-nested-dir# cd
    foo@bar ~# deepd
    foo@bar deeply-nested-dir#

My method lacks the a) delete shortcut and b) list shortcut features that the above solution gives, though.

Re: Quickly navigate your filesystem from the command line

#5

Post by sam152 » Sat, Aug 17, 2013, 2:28 PM UTC

This is really neat. I have added it to alias.sh for easy inclusion: http://alias.sh/filesystem-markers-jump

Re: Quickly navigate your filesystem from the command line

#6

Post by IanCal » Sat, Aug 17, 2013, 2:30 PM UTC

anjanb wrote: post #4

cool! I'm a command-line junkie as well. So, I've been doing something similar for quite a while. Here's what I have done : function ccb () { FOO=`pwd`; echo >> ~/shortcuts.sh; echo alias $1=\'pushd $FOO\' >> ~/shortcuts.sh; echo >> ~/shortcuts.sh; . ~/shortcuts.sh } simple but quite effective. Now, all I have to do is type ccb and give a shortcut name to register a shortcut. Then whenever i want to jump to that dire…

HN uses markdown, stick 4 spaces before each line in your code blocks to get them to indent properly, and drop the

    function ccb ()
    { 
        FOO=`pwd`;
        echo >> ~/shortcuts.sh; 
        echo alias $1=\'pushd $FOO\' >> ~/shortcuts.sh;
        echo >> ~/shortcuts.sh;
        . ~/shortcuts.sh
    }

Re: Quickly navigate your filesystem from the command line

#7

Post by fau » Sat, Aug 17, 2013, 2:32 PM UTC

You might want to check out z: https://github.com/rupa/z

Re: Quickly navigate your filesystem from the command line

#8

Post by anjanb » Sat, Aug 17, 2013, 2:38 PM UTC

IanCal wrote: post #6

anjanb wrote: post #4

cool! I'm a command-line junkie as well. So, I've been doing something similar for quite a while. Here's what I have done : function ccb () { FOO=`pwd`; echo >> ~/shortcuts.sh; echo alias $1=\'pushd $FOO\' >> ~/shortcuts.sh; echo >> ~/shortcuts.sh; . ~/shortcuts.sh } simple but quite effective. Now, all I have to do is type ccb and give a shortcut name to register a shortcut. Then whenever i want to jump to that dire…

HN uses markdown, stick 4 spaces before each line in your code blocks to get them to indent properly, and drop the function ccb () { FOO=`pwd`; echo >> ~/shortcuts.sh; echo alias $1=\'pushd $FOO\' >> ~/shortcuts.sh; echo >> ~/shortcuts.sh; . ~/shortcuts.sh }

thanks for letting me know -- I've edited my comment.

Re: Quickly navigate your filesystem from the command line

#9

Post by th0br0 » Sat, Aug 17, 2013, 2:45 PM UTC

Or you might just use ZSH (particularly in combination with oh-my-zsh), keep the marks around as zsh vars and skip all the symbolic linkage.

Re: Quickly navigate your filesystem from the command line

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Post by roob » Sat, Aug 17, 2013, 2:47 PM UTC

I also do something similar but slightly different: https://github.com/roobert/dotfiles/blob/master/.zsh/robs/fu...

my method involves storing the bookmarks in a file but loading them into zshs directory hash. This means the directories are tab completable and if you have AUTO_CD set then you can change directory with simply: ~dir_name, otherwise: cd ~dir_name.