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HyperJump – Simple Bookmark Manager for Bash

12 points by x0054 12y ago

kbd 12y ago
This sounds similar to 'z', except z remembers your common directories automatically. https://github.com/rupa/z https://github.com/rupa/z
mvip 12y ago
I've been using Autojump (https://github.com/joelthelion/autojump https://github.com/joelthelion/autojump) for some time. Same concept.
rane 12y ago
Cool, but why take the burden on having to remember to bookmark locations instead of using something like fasd, z or autojump that will "bookmark" every directory automatically and most of the time will get it right when you type part of a dir name?
6502nerdface 12y ago
For similar use cases, I get good mileage out of the bash built-ins `pushd' and `popd' (also available in bash derivatives like zsh). No need to install anything, any box with a bash prompt already has them. HyperJump, z, autojump, etc., look nice for cases where your directory-hopping sequences are "random access", not amenable to being organized around a stack. Still, you can get pretty far with the `+N'/`-N' "rotation" arguments to `pushd' and `popd'.
- x0054 12y ago
  Actually, HyperJump is probably more of a memory aid at the moment. I am setting up a new development server with CentOS, and I am just not used to their directory structure yet. I usually setup Ubuntu, but this time around one of our developers convinced me to go with CentOS. He claimed to be a CentOS expert, though his expertise extends only as far as CentOS 4 apparently, so now I am stuck setting up the server. Oh well, it's something new. In any case, it was annoying me that I could never remember off the top of my head where the server config, startup scripts, and other directories were, because it's just a little different than the Debian derivatives. So instead I just added all the stuff I visit often to the HJ list, with names that make sense to me. Now, regardless what server I am on, I can just type "jj confApache" and it'll take me to the right place. Just reduces cognitive load a bit.
  - 6502nerdface 12y ago
    I see, that's cool, it's like you create your own "logical" file system locations that have different "real" locations on different hosts.

12 points by x0054 12y ago

kbd 12y ago

This sounds similar to 'z', except z remembers your common directories automatically. https://github.com/rupa/z https://github.com/rupa/z

mvip 12y ago

I've been using Autojump (https://github.com/joelthelion/autojump https://github.com/joelthelion/autojump) for some time. Same concept.

rane 12y ago

Cool, but why take the burden on having to remember to bookmark locations instead of using something like fasd, z or autojump that will "bookmark" every directory automatically and most of the time will get it right when you type part of a dir name?

6502nerdface 12y ago

For similar use cases, I get good mileage out of the bash built-ins `pushd' and `popd' (also available in bash derivatives like zsh). No need to install anything, any box with a bash prompt already has them. HyperJump, z, autojump, etc., look nice for cases where your directory-hopping sequences are "random access", not amenable to being organized around a stack. Still, you can get pretty far with the `+N'/`-N' "rotation" arguments to `pushd' and `popd'.

x0054 12y ago
Actually, HyperJump is probably more of a memory aid at the moment. I am setting up a new development server with CentOS, and I am just not used to their directory structure yet. I usually setup Ubuntu, but this time around one of our developers convinced me to go with CentOS. He claimed to be a CentOS expert, though his expertise extends only as far as CentOS 4 apparently, so now I am stuck setting up the server. Oh well, it's something new. In any case, it was annoying me that I could never remember off the top of my head where the server config, startup scripts, and other directories were, because it's just a little different than the Debian derivatives. So instead I just added all the stuff I visit often to the HJ list, with names that make sense to me. Now, regardless what server I am on, I can just type "jj confApache" and it'll take me to the right place. Just reduces cognitive load a bit.
- 6502nerdface 12y ago
  I see, that's cool, it's like you create your own "logical" file system locations that have different "real" locations on different hosts.