Teleportation on the command line • Hacker News Board

Re: Teleportation on the command line

#31

Post by ehm_may » Sun, Jan 12, 2014, 1:03 AM UTC

I don't get it. Why not just use aliases?

alias ='cd path/to/'

Then you can just type: $

You can even set up an alias to add a new alias -> alias ea='vim ~/bash/alias'

Re: Teleportation on the command line

#32

Post by csense » Sun, Jan 12, 2014, 1:10 AM UTC

Why not just use a symlink?

    ln -s ~/super/long/nested/directory/name ~/short

If you don't want to dump them in your home directory, just make a directory with a single-letter name for your links:

    ln -s ~/super/long/nested/directory/name ~/l/short

Re: Teleportation on the command line

#33

Post by a-b » Sun, Jan 12, 2014, 1:15 AM UTC

sreejithr wrote: post #10

Did anybody try the script in ZSH?

https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/blob/master/plugin...

Re: Teleportation on the command line

#34

Post by Webster » Sun, Jan 12, 2014, 2:34 AM UTC

Why not just use the CDPATH variable in your shell? If the directory is one you go to frequently, add it to CDPATH, then just cd to it.

Re: Teleportation on the command line

#35

Post by biscarch » Sun, Jan 12, 2014, 3:19 AM UTC

csense wrote: post #32

Why not just use a symlink? ln -s ~/super/long/nested/directory/name ~/short If you don't want to dump them in your home directory, just make a directory with a single-letter name for your links: ln -s ~/super/long/nested/directory/name ~/l/short

Personally I do something similar. I set up an alias in .zshrc from project names to commands. This allows me to do things like source environments as well.

    alias proj="cd /this/that/foo/projects/myproject/ && source .hsenv/bin/activate"

Re: Teleportation on the command line

#36

Post by mtrn » Sun, Jan 12, 2014, 3:44 AM UTC

gaving wrote: post #9

res0nat0r wrote: post #4

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

lighter (non python) alternative to autojump https://github.com/rupa/z

Since I discovered `z` I haven't typed in cd, except for changing into $HOME quickly.

Re: Teleportation on the command line

#37

Post by bnegreve » Sun, Jan 12, 2014, 10:05 AM UTC

Nice. This quick and dirty trick has been in my .bashrc forever and I still use it:

    function md(){
        pwd > /tmp/md_tmp

    function gomd(){
        cd `cat /tmp/md_tmp`

so `md` marks the current directory and `gomd`go to the marked directory. Unlike bash builtins like pushd and popd, it uses the file system to store the marked directory so you can pop up a new terminal and just do gomd. (you can't with pushd/popd since the bash processes of the old and the new terminal are not related)

Edit: I see that your script uses links, I'll check this out.

Re: Teleportation on the command line

#38

Post by spurgu » Sun, Jan 12, 2014, 8:57 PM UTC

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://…

It seems to behave really good, thanks!

Re: Teleportation on the command line

#39

Post by rasengan0 » Sun, Jan 12, 2014, 9:51 PM UTC

I enjoy posts like this because it brings out timtowtdi: pushd, cdpath, ln and aliases