Don't waste your time by cd-ing in the terminal
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Re: Don't waste your time by cd-ing in the terminal
#2I've also wondered to myself why there isn't a terminal program with a directory tree by the side so you could just click on the directory that you want to be in, instead of ls -cd-tab-blah-^H-tab-^M. It would also a have a list of favorite and most-recently-used directories.
A weekend project, perhaps...
Re: Don't waste your time by cd-ing in the terminal
#3Try autojump, I love it - https://github.com/joelthelion/autojump/wiki
Re: Don't waste your time by cd-ing in the terminal
#4There's also the pushd and popd commands which are part of bash already.
And there's a wikipedia entry for this even: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushd_and_popd
Re: Don't waste your time by cd-ing in the terminal
#5Don't waste your time bookmarking directories, jump right to them ;) https://github.com/rupa/z
`z` tracks your most used directories. After a short learning phase, it will take you to the directory, based on its usage frequency and a hint you give it on the command line. Say I am often cd'ing into /var/www - then after a while I can just type `z ww`.
Re: Don't waste your time by cd-ing in the terminal
#6I was just at the point of making a bunch of aliases for some long paths, to save my tab key from daily abuse. This is way more elegant. Thanks.
Re: Don't waste your time by cd-ing in the terminal
#7I've also wondered to myself why there isn't a terminal program with a directory tree by the side so you could just click on the directory that you want to be in, instead of ls -cd-tab-blah-^H-tab-^M. It would also a have a list of favorite and most-recently-used directories. A weekend project, perhaps...
Because that would require a mouse, and that would require an X server, etc...
Re: Don't waste your time by cd-ing in the terminal
#8I use this function in my bash profile to navigate to my projects from anywhere on the file system.
function to {
cd ~/Sites/$1/
}
$ to coenhyde.com
Re: Don't waste your time by cd-ing in the terminal
#9I've also wondered to myself why there isn't a terminal program with a directory tree by the side so you could just click on the directory that you want to be in, instead of ls -cd-tab-blah-^H-tab-^M. It would also a have a list of favorite and most-recently-used directories. A weekend project, perhaps...
Because that would require a mouse, and that would require an X server, etc...
Works fine in vim with NERDTree without a mouse.
Re: Don't waste your time by cd-ing in the terminal
#10I've also wondered to myself why there isn't a terminal program with a directory tree by the side so you could just click on the directory that you want to be in, instead of ls -cd-tab-blah-^H-tab-^M. It would also a have a list of favorite and most-recently-used directories. A weekend project, perhaps...