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Navigating around in your shell (blog.meain.io)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (6 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You could also do a "up" for one up "upp" for 2 and "upppp" for 4 because of fun

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

True. That is something that could be done.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Oh I really like this. I never had an alias for this since I need to do multiple backwards cds very rarely, but I might just copy this

[–] taladar 3 points 11 months ago

I have the zsh option autopushd set which calls pushd in interactive shells for every cd, that way 90% of the time when I want to go back up to another path I can just use popd

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Go for it. I've been using it for years without a problem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Holy shit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Look into zoxide.

z direc

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months 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)