Over the holidays I stumbled across 2 neat bash tricks to simplify navigation between folders:
autocdautojump
Neither of these features is new.
autocd
autocd is very simple: It’s a built-in bash feature which prepends cd in case you enter a valid path.
$ cd /etc
$ /etc # the same
Setup
Add this to your ~/.bashrc:
shopt -s autocd
autojump
A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line
Directly from the source at autojump:
Usage:
j is a convenience wrapper function around autojump. Any option that can be used with autojump can be used with j and vice versa.
Jump To A Directory That Contains foo:
j foo
Jump To A Child Directory:
Sometimes it’s convenient to jump to a child directory (sub-directory of current directory) rather than typing out the full name.
jc bar
Open File Manager To Directories (instead of jumping):
Instead of jumping to a directory, you can open a file explorer window (Mac Finder, Windows Explorer, GNOME Nautilus, etc.) to the directory instead.
jo music
Opening a file manager to a child directory is also supported:
jco images
Using Multiple Arguments:
Let’s assume the following database:
30 /home/user/mail/inbox
10 /home/user/work/inbox
j in would jump into /home/user/mail/inbox as the higher weighted entry. However you can pass multiple arguments to autojump to prefer a different entry. In the above example, j w in would then change directory to /home/user/work/inbox.
For more options refer to help:
autojump --help