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Navigating around in your shell (blog.meain.io)
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[–] executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year 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

[–] PlexSheep@feddit.de 1 points 1 year 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)

[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look into zoxide.

z direc

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

[–] executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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!