All Hail cdargs!

rbowman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

On Thu, 7 Nov 2024 21:00:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:
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rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote at 02:56 this Thursday (GMT):

On Thu, 7 Nov 2024 01:30:04 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:
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Also pushd/popd are pretty nice sometimes.

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Thanks. I'd forgotten about them.

 
Yeah, they're more useful for moving between tasks, or sometimes when
you need to do something in a certain working directly.

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Over the years for my work source tree I've developed an extensive alias
file like
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alias cadesri='cd $SRC_DIR/newmap/cadmap/lgim'
alias cadmsg='cd $SRC_DIR/cadmsg'
alias cfs='cd $SRC_DIR/net/cfsd
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My own projects aren't so well organized and it would be handy if I'm
working in bar and want to snoop around in ../../python/django/bin to popd
back when I'm done.  I used to do it but it's one of those things that id
you don't use them somewhat often you forget the exist.

You should try cdargs. Once installed, add this to your .bashrc file:

    source /etc/cdargs-bash.sh

(There is also a cdargs-tcsh.csh version).

This adds some shell functions to your environment.

Then cd to where you want, and type the "mark" command.  To get to that
directory (e.g. /home/user/development/git) later, type "cdb git".

If you have bash completion installed, you can use tab-completion as well:

    $ cdb git/<tab>...

alias cfs='cd $SRC_DIR/net/cfsd

    $ cdb cfsd

Running cdargs itself brings up a list of marked directories, and offers other
comands; "man cdargs".

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