Autojump
A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line
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By wting
A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line
Under Other
By wting
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autojump - a faster way to navigate your filesystem
autojump 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.
Directories must be visited first before they can be jumped to.
j is a convenience wrapper function around autojump. Any option that
can be used with autojump can be used with j and vice versa.
Jump To A Directory That Contains foo:
j foo
Jump To A Child Directory:
Sometimes it's convenient to jump to a child directory
(sub-directory of current directory) rather than typing out the
full name.
jc bar
Open File Manager To Directories (instead of jumping):
Instead of jumping to a directory, you can open a file explorer
window (Mac Finder, Windows Explorer, GNOME Nautilus, etc.) to the
directory instead.
jo music
Opening a file manager to a child directory is also supported:
jco images
Using Multiple Arguments:
Let's assume the following database:
30 /home/user/mail/inbox
10 /home/user/work/inbox
j in would jump into /home/user/mail/inbox as the higher
weighted entry. However you can pass multiple arguments to autojump
to prefer a different entry. In the above example, j w in would
then change directory to /home/user/work/inbox.
For more options refer to help:
autojump --help
Due to limited time and resources, only "first class support" items will
be maintained by the primary committers. All "community supported" items
will be updated based on pull requests submitted by the general public.
Please continue opening issues and providing feedback for community
supported items since consolidating information helps other users
troubleshoot and submit enhancements and fixes.
Grab a copy of autojump:
git clone git://github.com/wting/autojump.git
Run the installation script and follow on screen instructions.
cd autojump
./install.py or ./uninstall.py
autojump is included in the following distro repositories, please use
relevant package management utilities to install (e.g. apt-get, yum,
pacman, etc):
Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint
All Debian-derived distros require manual activation for policy
reasons, please see /usr/share/doc/autojump/README.Debian.
RedHat, Fedora, CentOS
Install autojump-zsh for zsh, autojump-fish for fish, etc.
ArchLinux
Homebrew is the recommended installation method for Mac OS X:
brew install autojump
MacPorts is also available:
port install autojump
Windows support is enabled by clink
which should be installed prior to installing autojump.
autojump does not support directories that begin with -.
For bash users, autojump keeps track of directories by modifying
$PROMPT_COMMAND. Do not overwrite $PROMPT_COMMAND:
export PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a"
Instead append to the end of the existing \$PROMPT_COMMAND:
export PROMPT_COMMAND="${PROMPT_COMMAND:+$PROMPT_COMMAND ;} history -a"
For any questions or issues please visit:
https://github.com/wting/autojump/issues
autojump was originally written by Joël Schaerer, and currently
maintained by William Ting. More contributors can be found in AUTHORS.
Copyright © 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL
version 3 or later http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html. This is free
software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO
WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.