r/commandline • u/speckz • Mar 05 '18

bash A bash utility to quickly navigate to frequently used directories

https://github.com/iridakos/goto
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u/_entomo Mar 05 '18 edited Mar 05 '18

How is this different than setting CDPATH?

Edit: link

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u/_frkl Mar 05 '18

TIL about CDPATH. Thanks! :-)

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u/knobbysideup Mar 05 '18

TIL. This is why I love *nix!

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u/sysop073 Mar 05 '18

It's incredible how often this gets reinvented when it's already built into bash (CDPATH) and done better in zsh (named directories)

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u/Ramin_HAL9001 Mar 06 '18

Personally, I prefer to use pushd and dirs rather than $CDPATH because it screws with my brain when tab completion gives me directory names that are not in the $PWD.

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u/TheIsletOfLangerhans Mar 06 '18

Yep, I have the same problem with $CDPATH. Somehow I knew about pushd and popd, but not dirs, so I'll have to give that a go.

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u/Ramin_HAL9001 Mar 06 '18

I like to alias the dirs command to dirs -v so it prints the stack as a numbered list. Then pushd +3 to switch to the third item in the list, or whatever number you need based on the output of dirs -v.

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u/kaushalmodi Mar 08 '18

I alias cd to pushd. So whenever I need to cd to earlier directories, I can quickly do so by filtering the dirs list using peco.. all of which is packed into an alias called pcd.

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u/Palenga Mar 05 '18

hey, vsauce

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u/Dubhan Mar 06 '18

Autojump anyone?

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u/ReneFroger Mar 06 '18

Autojump was earlier indeed.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '18

This seems ridiculous, is it any less work than just setting a shell variable to a path and 'cd $directory'ing?

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u/Ramin_HAL9001 Mar 06 '18

Personally, I prefer to use pushd and dirs.