Navigating around in your shell

learnbyexample ( learnbyexample@programming.dev ) · 3 years ago

Navigating around in your shell

Executive Chimp ( executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de ) · 3 years ago

Good article. Rather than aliasing `cd …/…" etc. I’ve got this function in my setup:

up () {
	local x='' 
	for i in $(seq ${1:-1})
	do
		x="$x../" 
	done
	cd $x
}

This lets me do up 4 to go up 4 directories.

Astaroth ( Astaroth@lemm.ee ) · 3 years ago

I use Fish and have keybinds for previous and next directory, 99% of the time when going up in a directory it’s to (one of) the previous directory/ies I was in

beeng ( beeng@discuss.tchncs.de ) · 3 years ago

Look into zoxide.

z direc

Will take you to the most used directory starting with “direc” eg “/home/me/random/directory”

Executive Chimp ( executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de ) · 3 years ago

I’ve tried things like that before but never got on with them. I found when I had many projects with similar directory structures it was easy to end up in the wrong place and took more thought to get to the right place than just cding

beeng ( beeng@discuss.tchncs.de ) · 3 years ago

The dir’s are the same names or similar? A few extra key strokes to get the fullname should be easier than cd’ing back and forth.

There’s also z foo “space” “tab” as per docs to get interactive list for matches.

But, just a suggestion!

Specialpatrol ( Specialpatrol@feddit.uk ) · 3 years ago

Holy shit

PlexSheep ( PlexSheep@feddit.de ) · 3 years ago

What I use to automatically extend stuff like ls .... to ls ../../../..

function expand-dots() {
    local MATCH
    if [[ $LBUFFER =~ '(^| )\.\.\.+' ]]; then
        LBUFFER=$LBUFFER:fs%\.\.\.%../..%
    fi
}

function expand-dots-then-expand-or-complete() {
    zle expand-dots
    zle expand-or-complete
}

function expand-dots-then-accept-line() {
    zle expand-dots
    zle accept-line
}

zle -N expand-dots
zle -N expand-dots-then-expand-or-complete
zle -N expand-dots-then-accept-line
bindkey '^I' expand-dots-then-expand-or-complete
bindkey '^M' expand-dots-then-accept-line

(for zsh)