dirjumper

Jump easly between frequently used directories, by bookmarking them with short aliases. The upstream branch contains the currently developed version, while the master branch holds the stable release.

Download and install

Only a bash shell is needed. The current directory has to have read and write rights. Copy and execute one of these commands in your bash shell, while being in a writable directory:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/akoskovacs/dirjumper/master/dj.sh && bash dj.sh install && rm dj.sh

or, with curl

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/akoskovacs/dirjumper/master/dj.sh > dj.sh && bash dj.sh install && rm dj.sh

This will also work on Windows if a GNU-type command line environment is present, but sometimes you still have to create your own ~/.bashrc manually if it does not exist, by running:

$ touch ~/.bashrc

The downloaded script will be removed automatically from the current directory after the installation is completed.

Usage

Adding a new alias for the current directory

$ cd /var/log/cups
$ j -a cu

The current directory is now available with the alias 'cu'.

Adding an arbitrary directory (from anywhere)

$ j -a apt /etc/apt/sources.list.d

Jumping

$ j apt
$ pwd
/etc/apt/sources.list.d
$ j cu
$ pwd     
/var/log/cups

Listing out the aliases

$ j 

You will get this output:

    cu   /var/log/cups
    apt  /etc/apt/sources.list.d

If your working directory has a known alias it will be preceded with a plus + sign and its alias will be green.

Renaming aliases

$ j -r cu cps
$ j cps
$ pwd
/var/log/cups

Deleting an alias

$ j -d cps

And 'cps' is forgotten forever. :(

Using the directory in a regular command

$ ls $(j -g apt) # listing /etc/apt/sources.list.d
$ cat $(j -g apt)/official-package-repositories.list

Living on the edge

The script can automatically upgrade and downgrade itself using the -u and -w options respectively. For upgrades you have to have (of course) a stable internet connection and wget.

Upgrading

$ j -u
[+] Checking for new version (current is v0.4.0)...
[+] New version (v10.5.0) found...
[?] Do you want to upgrade? [y/N]: y
    ...

Downgrading (revoking upgrades)

$ j -w
[+] Sucessfully downgraded from '0.2.0' to '0.1.1'.

What is installed?

By default, the script copies itself to the $HOME/.config/.dirjumper. The .dirjumper directory contains the script and the dj.list file where the aliases are assigned. These are not to be confused with shell aliases, which are a built-in way for aliasing commands.

The script also appends some code to the .bashrc. Some distributions might rewrite this rc script. The appended snippet usually looks like this:

# <dirjumper>
source /home/akos/.config/.dirjumper/dj.sh
# </dirjumper>

The dirjumper "tags" are used as separators, so later versions could safely modify its inner contents.

Configuration

You have some limited configuration options in the current version of dirjumper.

These could be set from your .bashrc file, practically between the aformentioned "tags". This is not required though and a later version could potentially overwrite your settings so be awera of that.

$DIRJUMPER_ALIAS is provided to set the alias used to interface with the script. By default this is j for jump.

# <dirjumper>
export $DIRJUMPER_ALIAS="go" # go <alias> could be used
source /home/akos/.config/.dirjumper/dj.sh
# </dirjumper>

$DIRJUMPER_COLOR could be set to 0 in order to disable output coloring. The default value is '' (empty string). As of now any other value will disable output coloring.

# <dirjumper>
export $DIRJUMPER_COLOR=0 # disable colors
source /home/akos/.config/.dirjumper/dj.sh
# </dirjumper>