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Quick directory bookmarks

Terminal - Quick directory bookmarks
to() { eval dir=\$$1; cd "$dir"; }
2010-10-15 13:40:35
User: hfs
Functions: cd eval
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Quick directory bookmarks

Set a bookmark as normal shell variable

p=/cumbersome/path/to/project

To go there

to p

This saves one "$" and is faster to type ;-) The variable is still useful as such:

vim $p/<TAB>

will expand the variable (at least in bash) and show a list of files to edit.

If setting the bookmarks is too much typing you could add another function

bm() { eval $1=$(pwd); }

then bookmark the current directory with

bm p
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Awesome! much better than autojump! straight to the point. Using it right now and loving it.

Comment by j_melis 136 weeks and 1 day ago

Just in case, I use cdargs, is nice. Yours is, too.

Comment by rodolfoap 136 weeks ago

My expanded version which also saves the bookmarks to a file can be found here:

https://gist.github.com/2786858

Comment by hfs 52 weeks and 1 day ago

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