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For changing directories, you can also use something like z (https://github.com/rupa/z https://github.com/rupa/z) to jump around: Tracks your most used

For changing directories, you can also use something like z (https://github.com/rupa/z https://github.com/rupa/z) to jump around: Tracks your most used directories, based on 'frecency'. After a short learning phase, z will take you to the most 'frecent' directory that matches ALL of the regexes given on the command line, in order. For example, z foo bar would match /foo/bar but not /bar/foo.

kbd 10y ago
Also fasd, which has a z-compatible interface and does a little more: https://github.com/clvv/fasd https://github.com/clvv/fasd
eriknstr 10y ago
I've been thinking about wanting something akin to this, I just had no idea it existed, so what I've been doing instead is I've defined short aliases for some of my most frequent directories. I use such an alias which I have named "no" which does "cd /var/www/no.nordstroem.www/pub/htdocs" on my Raspberry Pi where I host my website. For most directories on my laptop and desktop rather than using an alias even though I might have defined one is I first try a reverse search for it in the shell history, for example ^Rklon to get to ~/src/github.com/eriknstr/klondike/. However reverse search will fail whenever I haven't worked with a directory for a while or if I've been doing a lot of things in one directory since I have chosen to leave the length of the shell history at its default. I would have liked to maybe start using the command you linked but unfortunately it is using the WTFPL so I will have to pass on it. But from the short description you quoted maybe I'll implement a similar tool myself some day. Then again maybe I will just keep doing things the way I'm doing them now because usually most of what I do is I go to a specific directory and do a lot of work there without moving much, typically said directory will be the root of the repository I have for what I'm working on. If I'm working in several project root directories at the same time I'll usually have multiple terminals open.

kbd 10y ago

Also fasd, which has a z-compatible interface and does a little more: https://github.com/clvv/fasd https://github.com/clvv/fasd

eriknstr 10y ago

I've been thinking about wanting something akin to this, I just had no idea it existed, so what I've been doing instead is I've defined short aliases for some of my most frequent directories. I use such an alias which I have named "no" which does "cd /var/www/no.nordstroem.www/pub/htdocs" on my Raspberry Pi where I host my website. For most directories on my laptop and desktop rather than using an alias even though I might have defined one is I first try a reverse search for it in the shell history, for example ^Rklon to get to ~/src/github.com/eriknstr/klondike/. However reverse search will fail whenever I haven't worked with a directory for a while or if I've been doing a lot of things in one directory since I have chosen to leave the length of the shell history at its default. I would have liked to maybe start using the command you linked but unfortunately it is using the WTFPL so I will have to pass on it. But from the short description you quoted maybe I'll implement a similar tool myself some day. Then again maybe I will just keep doing things the way I'm doing them now because usually most of what I do is I go to a specific directory and do a lot of work there without moving much, typically said directory will be the root of the repository I have for what I'm working on. If I'm working in several project root directories at the same time I'll usually have multiple terminals open.