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Hi all,<br>
<br>
I recently start using a tool called autojump, which some of you may
find useful.<br>
<br>
Taken from the site:<b> <br>
</b><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://github.com/joelthelion/autojump">http://github.com/joelthelion/autojump</a><b><br>
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"Autojump: a cd command that learns</b>
<p>One of the most used shell commands is “cd”. A quick survey among my
friends revealed that between 10 and 20% of all commands they type are
actually cd commands! Unfortunately, jumping from one part of your
system to another with cd requires to enter almost the full path, which
isn’t very practical and requires a lot of keystrokes.</p>
<p><strong>autojump</strong> is a faster way to navigate your
filesystem. It works by maintaining a database of the directories you
use the most from the command line. The jumpstat command shows you the
current contents of the database. You need to work a little bit before
the database becomes usable. Autojump will listen and rank your ‘cd’
commands by frequency. Once your database is reasonably complete, you
can “jump” to a commonly "cd"ed directory by typing:</p>
<b>j</b> dirspec
<p>where dirspec is a few characters of the directory you want to jump
to. It will jump to the most used directory whose name matches the
pattern given in dirspec.</p>
<p>Autojump supports tab-completion. Try it! Autojump should be
compatible with Bash 4 and zsh."<br>
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After spending few hours to one day navigating in my system using
conventional "cd", autojump has learnt all the path where I use to go
and it becomes really easy to move from one directory to another one by
using "j".<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Arnaud<br>
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