How to navigate directories faster with Bash (2015)

Post by dvfjsdhgfv » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 2:05 PM UTC

mfontani wrote: post #89

W0lf wrote: post #41

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For this exact use case I defined the following many years ago in my bash profile: # create a new directory and enter it function mkd() { mkdir -p "$@" && cd "$_"; } And use it like: mkd foo

Beware that using "$@" there might not be what you want, as it passes space-separated arguments to mkdir. What does: "mkd foo bar" do? It creates both directories, and cd's into "bar". Might be worth checking that only one argument has been passed, or use "$*" which instead would treat all arguments as one parameter, and "mkd foo bar" would create a "foo bar" directory instead (and cd to it) YMMV.

Post by mekkkkkk » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 2:29 PM UTC

jnpatel wrote: post #5

I use `z` as a less manual way to search common directories instead of changing $CDPATH. It's based on 'frecency'. https://github.com/rupa/z

Post by bamboozled » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 2:46 PM UTC

mekkkkkk wrote: post #113

jnpatel wrote: post #5

I use `z` as a less manual way to search common directories instead of changing $CDPATH. It's based on 'frecency'. https://github.com/rupa/z

zsh, oh-my-zsh and z are the must haves that I add to any new environment immediately. Z and similar tools is such an elegant solution to directory navigation.

Post by kkoncevicius » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 2:51 PM UTC

aasasd wrote: post #114

kkoncevicius wrote: post #59

Here is one additional bookmark solution [1]: export CDPATH=.:~/.marks/ function mark { ln -sr "$(pwd)" ~/.marks/"$1" } mark @name # create a bookmark cd @name # jump to bookmark cd @ # list bookmarks cd @n # auto-complete cd @name/ # can access sub-directories within bookmarks Works best when bookmarks are prefixed by "@" or other special symbol. Additional advantage is that you can use the same function `cd` to nav…

Pretty sure this would change into the symlinks, not the linked directories. I.e. the $PWD would be under `~/.marks/`.

    alias cd="cd -P"

Post by Normille » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 3:20 PM UTC

I_complete_me wrote: post #21

Normille wrote: post #2

I upvoted for this alone: Another neat short hand is !$ which is an alias for the last argument of the previous command. This can be handy if one creates a new directory and wants to change into it without typing the the directory again. So commands would be mkdir -p make/new/directory cd !$ You've no idea how many years I've been thinking "This is Linux fer gawd's sake. Surely there must be some easy way to make a n…

In zsh, you use -> % take which makes the dir and cd's into it.