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Teleportation on the command line

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Re: Teleportation on the command line

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Post by JelteF »

shurcooL wrote: post #13

> Nobody types an entire URL like https://example.com/example-page?input=sample&another-input=... . We bookmark it and give it a keyword like ex or something. From then, we just type ex and hit return to access the website. I don't wanna sound negative, but just being realistic. I don't rely on bookmarks primarily. I rely on "most frequently visited gets auto-completed first" and fuzzy search of Chrome Omnibox. If I…

You should try out fish[1], one of the features that makes it great is that it does exactly what the chrome omnibox does, just with commands. It shows what it will complete after you press ^F and it is a lot of times correct.

It also has lots of other features, like tab completion that tells you what the options of commands do. So reading the manpages or typing -h is generally not needed.

If you do try it, also try one of the themes of oh-my-fish[2], most of them have a git thing that lets you know if you have uncommitted stuff and on what branch you are.

[1] http://fishshell.com/

[2] https://github.com/bpinto/oh-my-fish

Re: Teleportation on the command line

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Post by JelteF »

secoif wrote: post #20
res0nat0r wrote: post #4

Just use auto jump https://github.com/joelthelion/autojump

auto jump (or z) is so incredibly useful it should be built into the terminal. changed my life.

Fish[1] sort of has this built in. I explained more in another comment[2].

[1] http://fishshell.com/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7043719

Re: Teleportation on the command line

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Post by ClayFerguson »

This is sort of why I always just put everything in a shell script. Creating a text file with .sh extension is not that difficult, and I almost never use the command line interactively. Plus I use a GUI and just mount folders I need to browse. It boggles the mind how so many people still equate "Linux==Command Line Hacking". I actually had a boss once who said to me: "If you don't use the command line that much why do you use Linux instead of Windows?" You see, in his mind Linux was all about the command line. Yeah maybe in 1990 it was, but nowadays it's a normal OS like any other.

Re: Teleportation on the command line

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Post by Morgawr »

Interesting scripts are being posted in the comments, really neat tricks guys.

One thing I'd like to add, if you're like me and don't want to install too much "extra" stuff on your machines: Bash has native commands called pushd and popd[0]. They work as a stack, pushd will push the current directory onto the stack and jump to the new target, then you're free to move around, do whatever you want and then call popd to pop the latest directory from the stack.

I find these very useful, especially if I'm on a machine without additional installed software and just want to do my thing effortlessly.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushd_and_popd

Re: Teleportation on the command line

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Post by anon4 »

Morgawr wrote: post #26

Interesting scripts are being posted in the comments, really neat tricks guys. One thing I'd like to add, if you're like me and don't want to install too much "extra" stuff on your machines: Bash has native commands called pushd and popd[0]. They work as a stack, pushd will push the current directory onto the stack and jump to the new target, then you're free to move around, do whatever you want and then call popd to…

For a one-level undo there's always

  cd -
Passing a single dash as a parameter to cd takes you back to $OLDPWD and each invocation of cd sets OLDPWD to the directory you were in.

Re: Teleportation on the command line

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Post by a3_nm »

euank wrote: post #17

It looks like no one has posted what, in my opinion, is the most powerful of the "jump" programs: fasd. My workflow for getting around is just to type "z " and I almost always end up where I want. If I just want to edit a file, not a project, I do vim `f ` and likewise get the file I want typically. The readme makes it pretty clear how awesome it is and I've stuck with it after using autojump, z, and others. https://…

Second this recommendation. fasd works extremely well, and better than z and autojump for my usage. I use it all the time.

Re: Teleportation on the command line

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Post by MattFlower »

Some time ago I put my directory changing tools up on GitHub at https://github.com/mattflower/bashcd

In addition to the bookmarking style capabilities other people have already mentioned it also includes integration with the locate database, the mac spotlight/mds database, and the plain old find command. It can switch to a sub directory containing a particular file. It also supports bash completion.

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