• Executive Chimp@discuss.tchncs.de
    14·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Caveman@lemmy.world
      9·
      1 year ago

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

    • ENipo@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      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

    • beeng@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      1 year ago

      Look into zoxide.

      z direc

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

      • Executive Chimp@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        1 year ago

        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

        • beeng@discuss.tchncs.de
          1·
          1 year 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!

    • Astaroth
      2·
      1 year 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

    • PlexSheep@feddit.de
      1·
      1 year 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)