I couldn't do without a 'bookmarks' feature that I implemented for my terminal. It's triggered with `Alt+b`: 1. Scan an eternal history file for `cd` with abso

I couldn't do without a 'bookmarks' feature that I implemented for my terminal. It's triggered with `Alt+b`: 1. Scan an eternal history file for `cd` with absolute path except for /tmp/* 2. Sort and filter out duplicates 3. Call fzf and let user pick the desired result 4. Upon selection don't enter the directory but instead type `cd <selection>` into the prompt so that the user can navigate further using <Tab>. What's nice about this approach is that it automatically builds your bookmarks, but only from `cd` commands where you deliberately used an absolute path. Here's the code. It has some prerequisites (fzf[0] and ~/.eternal_bash_history[1]) and probably only works with my terminal (Xfce Terminal); it took a bit of tinkering to get it to work. # ~/bashrc.d/aliases.sh __b() { # bookmarks; props to fzf for providing examples of READLINE configuration local selected="cd "$(cat ~/.bash_eternal_history | grep '^cd /' | egrep -v '\.\.|/tmp' | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq | fzf --exact) READLINE_LINE="${READLINE_LINE:0:$READLINE_POINT}$selected${READLINE_LINE:$READLINE_POINT}" READLINE_POINT=$(( READLINE_POINT + ${#selected} )) } bind -m vi-insert -x '"\eb": "__b"' 2>/dev/null [0]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf https://github.com/junegunn/fzf [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/19533853 https://stackoverflow.com/a/19533853