Command Line Tools for Faster File System Navigation

Command-line utilities to replace “cd” command for faster file system navigation.

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Overview

In some of my previous articles, I walked through with you tools that could improve your development workflow. One of the command-line utilities is autojump which is a faster way to navigate the filesystem.

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For developers, we mostly live within the terminal. Having a faster way to navigate the filesystem can definitely improve our productivity. In this article let’s explore the possible options we have.

Jumping Between Directories

Built-in Commands

Let’s start with some of the built-in commands.

• alias: You can easily create alias for the most commonly used directories, e.g. your project folder

$ alias p="cd $HOME/projects"

• Reverse/forward search: You can do a reverse search (Control-R), or forward search (Control-S) for the command history.