[lug] CDPATH?

[Tyler Cipriani]

Here's a useful thing that I've setup recently, it's a variation on
Jeroen Janssens's method[0] of quick filesystem naviagation:

In your ~/.bashrc (or other shell initialization file)

1. Create a mark function:

    mark() { mkdir -p "$HOME/.marks"; ln -s "$(pwd)" "$HOME/.marks/$1" }

2. Alias cd to cd -P:

    cd='cd -P'

3. Make sure "$HOME/.marks" is in your CDPATH variable:

    export CDPATH="$HOME/.marks"

To use this system, simply use the mark function when you're in a
directory to create an alias for that directory that you can cd to
from anywhere in the filesystem:

    (ﾉ^ヮ^)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧ pwd
    /home/tyler
    (ﾉ^ヮ^)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧ mkdir -p tmp/some/really/deep/file/structure/omg/so/long
    (ﾉ^ヮ^)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧ cd !$
    cd tmp/some/really/deep/file/structure/omg/so/long
    (ﾉ^ヮ^)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧ mark deep
    (ﾉ^ヮ^)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧ cd
    (ﾉ^ヮ^)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧ pwd
    /home/tyler
    (ﾉ^ヮ^)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧ cd deep
    /home/tyler/.marks/deep
    (ﾉ^ヮ^)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧ pwd
    /home/tyler/tmp/some/really/deep/file/structure/omg/so/long

Tada!

Tyler

0. http://jeroenjanssens.com/2013/08/16/quickly-navigate-your-filesystem-from-the-command-line.html


On 16-04-14 06:26:34, Jeffrey S. Haemer wrote:
> Jed,
> 
> Another helpful tweak for cd is "shopt -s globstar"
> 
> shopt -s globstar
> mkdir -p a/b/c/d/e
> cd **/e
> pwd
> 
> 
> It's no DWIM, but sometimes it's a good shortcut. I'm lazy and a bad
> typist, so my .bashrc includes this:
> 
> shopt -s cdspell dirspell globstar
> 
> Also this:
> 
> alias mroe=more  # for Evi
> 
> Perhaps, however, tonight's emacs talk will include ways to use DWIM
> commands to turn emacs into the shell-of-your-dreams. :-)
> 
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 6:38 PM, Jed S. Baer <blug at jbaer.cotse.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 17:59:47 -0600
> > Zan Lynx wrote:
> >
> > > Notice that "warez" is not in your CDPATH. To make "cd warez" work you'd
> > > need "CDPATH=/home/jbaer/incoming"
> >
> > Aha. Somehow, I had it in my head it'd be recursive. Funny, how the brain
> > works sometimes. Thanks.
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