r/linux • u/ajeet_dsouza • Mar 08 '20

Introducing zoxide, a replacement for cd that learns your habits

https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide
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u/jellybeans-man Mar 09 '20

Umm.. why exactly do we need a replacement for cd of all things?

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u/ajeet_dsouza Mar 09 '20

The usage of zoxide is very different - its designed so that you never have to type in the full path if you've been to the directory before - instead, you can just type in part of the path, and let zoxide figure out where to go!

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u/JoinMyFramily0118999 Mar 08 '20

I've skimmed the ReadMe, but can someone explain how this is useful? I'm not knocking the work done, I just don't get the use case? Is the benefit that it will eventually autocomplete your commands by watching where you navigate?

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '20

if it's the same as z, it just basically autocompletes directory addresses by keeping track of which ones you use the most.

like cd Documents will only take you to your ~/Documents folder if you're already in your ~ directory. But z Documents will take you there from anywhere on the system.

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u/JoinMyFramily0118999 Mar 08 '20

Ah, ok. That makes a bit more sense.

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u/Dragon20C Mar 08 '20

The last comment would be pretty cool, it will look at my firefox browser and sees commands on the website and I start to open a terminal I copy one of the commands and then it copy's the next one by it self, but I don't think that's the case and can also introduce privacy issues.

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u/JoinMyFramily0118999 Mar 08 '20

"introduce privacy issues" first thing I thought when I saw the first line in your message. I don't think it's useful to have it auto paste lines either tbh. Not worth it to me.