Sat, Aug 1, 2015 This spring I was working with a startup that wanted to use CentOS as their main development platform. Though this wasn’t my role exactly, as it is with startups, you pitch in where you can. So I also became the defacto server admin. Problem was, I am used to the Debian derivatives of Linux, so CentOS was a bit of a switch for me, especially in their default directory structure. Not a big deal, but working over a high latency connection, autocompletion wasn’t working so well. To avoid the headache of remembering new directory structure, and in general to speed up directory navigation, I decided to make a little BASH script to bookmark all the directories I commonly use on a system. Thus, was borne. HyperJump I have used and as well as the utility, but for my needs I wanted something else. My goals were: pushd popd autojump quickly jump to random directories persistent storage from session to session ability to nickname directories so the nickname does not necessarily have to be the name of the directory autocomplete for the nicknames quick and easy to use little to no dependencies, so it’s easy to install on any *NIX system With that in mind I made , a simple and quick bookmark tool for bash and zsh shells. Actually, it might work on other shells, but I only tested it on bash. A zsh patch was provided by on GitHub. I tested it on OSX, Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu, and Slackware. I am sure it will run on basically anything with bash or zsh support. HyperJump daveFNbuck In short, HyperJump is a bookmark tool and a kind of memory aid. You bookmark directories by using the command (for ump emember), delete bookmarks with the command (for ump orget), and jump to directories with command (for ump ump, I guess). If you have Dialog utility, a UNIX CURSES utility for presenting Text Based GUI, it will also show you a list of all bookmarks, and you can select the one you would like to jump to. jr J R jf J F jj J J HyperJump is almost pure BASH. I originally intended it to be 3 separate bash scripts, but that proved to be problematic. There is no simple mechanism by which you can change the working directory of one bash session from another one. So, when you run , if it starts in a separate bash instance, it will not be able to change the working directory of the shell it was lunched from. The solution was to write the script as a function, add it to bashrc, and have it execute inside the active bash instance directly. In any case, having all 3 scripts and the supporting logic collected in one file actually turned out to be more elegant. jj Download script and place it somewhere on your system, such as . Add the following line to your , or file: hyperjump ~/bin/hyperjump .profile .bashrc .zshrc source /location/of/hyperjump To get the list of all the Bookmarks in a nice looking menu window, you need a unix utility called . You can install it via yum, apt-get, homebrew, ports, and others like so: Optional: dialog # On CentOS or Another RedHat Derivativesudo yum install dialog# On Ubuntu or Another Debian Derivativesudo apt-get install dialog# On OS Xbrew install dialogsudo port install dialog HyperJump consists of 3 command line commands (functions). — Remember Jump. Bookmarks current directory. Run to add current directory, or just run and use the interactive mode. jr jr nickname jr — Forget Jump. Deletes the current directory from the bookmarks. Run while in a directory you want forgotten or to forget a specific nickname. jf jf jf nickname — Jump to a bookmark location. Run to jump to a location or just to get a list of all bookmarks. You can also run to jump to a location and than run the command specified with “./” as the first argument. So, for instance, you can run on OSX to jump to the myProject directory and open the myProject directory in Finder and Sublime Text. jj jj nickname jj jj nickname command jj myProject open subl All of the commands have autocomplete. Both and will autocomplete with nicknames of bookmarked locations. The command will autocomplete with the basename of the current directory. After the first argument, will autocomplete with list of available system commands (programs). jj jf jr jj Examples: # Remember current directoryjrjr MyDir# Forget current directoryjf# Forget another directoryjf AnotherDir# Jump to a Directoryjjjj MyDir # Jump to a directory and open the directory in another program(s)jj MyDir openjj MyDir open subl tm Final Thoughts I hope HyperJump can be as useful to others as it is to me. HyperJump is released under the . Use it, love it, , make changes, send pull requests. Enjoy! MIT License fork it Originally published at sdbr.net .

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