learnbyexampleNavigating around in your shell
Mike WooskeyThanks for these tips.
QuazarOmegaGreat stuff! Didn’t know about
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Executive ChimpGood 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.
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
Go for it. I’ve been using it for years without a problem.
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
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
You could also do a “up” for one up “upp” for 2 and “upppp” for 4 because of fun
True. That is something that could be done.
Holy shit
Look into zoxide.
z direc
Will take you to the most used directory starting with “direc” eg “/home/me/random/directory”
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
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 as per docs to get interactive list for matches.
But, just a suggestion!
PlexSheepWhat I use to automatically extend stuff like ls … to ls …/…/…/…
(for zsh)
Is there a community for people that actually know and use linux or is this just like 'programmer’humor where morons can’t exit vim, use a debugger, or RTFM?
How would you define “knowing” and “using” linux? Many people here don’t use Linux professionally and only on the desktop, so they probably aren’t too familiar with all the features of different cli programs.
Reading a blog post is more accessible than reading a man page. I didn’t know cd -, so reading the post was worth it I’d say.
Reading a blog post is more accessible than reading a man page.
I don’t agree with that assessment at all. People should learn to read manpages, instead of being spoon-fed pieces of manpages in inferior form.
Any program should have a man page, even if it only lists all options. My point is that a blog post helps some people to learn about a program. For example a post often highlights the most important options of a software.
manpages aren’t guides though - they don’t help much in learning new tools, especially complicated ones. They’re comprehensive references, some can literally span hundreds of pages. Useful when you know what you’re doing and what you’re looking for, not great for learning new tools.
Some of these tips are dangerous. You generally don’t want cause insensitivity in your shell. Also, ls should never be used as a subshell to find files as a part of commands.
hallettjI use that
r function regularly to go to the git project root. But I call it gtop. I mostly use that and zoxide to get around.