$ cd ..
$ ls
$ cd ..
$ ls
"hmm yes.. everything seems to be in order"
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I need a shell/plugin/tool/whatever that always shows me the content of the current dir in a little popup or something.
Anything I do in the shell is like cd this, ls, cd there, ls *, I feel like a have the navigational awareness of a amnesiac goldfish
Put this in bashrc or whatever flavour of shells's bashrc you use:
function cs () { cd "$@" && ls }
I didnt remember the function sintax of bash so I just copied it from SO.
cs () {
cd $1;
ls ${@:2}
}
You (probably) only want to pass the first argument to cd, this'll send the rest to ls.
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A window, you say!?
Alternatively, you could use a TUI file manager. Once you get the navigation down you can manage things pretty quickly. Especially with ones that have options for dual directory layouts, like Midnight Commander or vifm.
You probably want rangerfm or vifm. They use miller columns for to show you your surrounding context.
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In your rc:
alias ..='cd ..'
alias ...='cd ../..'
alias ....='cd ../../..'
Usage:
1/2/3 $ ...
1 $
That's pretty neat
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..... for zsh users
Excuse me what? I've been multi cd'ing for years like a chump?
alias cd..='cd ..'
alias cd...='cd ../..'
alias cd....='cd ../../..
alias cd.....='cd ../../../..'Then forget all that and just use
cd ~ or cd /
No need for ~ - just cd works as well.
alias ..='cd ..' #: up one directory
alias ...='cd ../..' #: up two directories
The first two options (autocd and cdspell) have been a lifesaver in fixing my frustrations with the default bash settings (and even lets me stick with bash, instead of feeling I should move to zsh or any other shell.
I can just type a foldername, tabcomplete it and press enter to go there. It's great.
# == shopts ==
# https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/The-Shopt-Builtin.html
shopt -s autocd # cd into folder without cd, so 'dotfiles' will cd into the folder
shopt -s cdspell # attempt spelling correcting on folders
shopt -s direxpand # expand a partial dir name
shopt -s checkjobs # stop shell from exit when there's jobs running
shopt -s dirspell # attempt spelling correcting on folders
shopt -s expand_aliases # aliases are expanded
shopt -s histappend # append to the history file, don't overwrite it
shopt -s histreedit # lets your re-edit old executed command
shopt -s histverify # I'm confused.
shopt -s hostcomplete # performs completion when a word contains an '@'
shopt -s cmdhist # save multiple-line command in single history entry
shopt -u lithist # multi-lines are saved with embedded newlines rather than semicolons; explictly unset
shopt -s checkwinsize # update LINES and COLUMNS to fit output
for i in { 1..4 }; do cd ..; done
cd .. ls cd .. ls cd .. ls cd .. ls
Depending on where you are, maybe just "cd".
Smh when are you going to upgrade to dvd
i use fish shell with https://github.com/nickeb96/puffer-fish
basically when i type ... it expands to ../.. and adds another /.. for every additional dot i type
its similar to what the zsh users in the comment section are doing
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Try zoxide
Installing zoxide led me to installing fzf, which has improved my terminal experience by about 35%, I already installed it in all the machines I'm managing
Got any more tools? :)
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I alias .. to cd ..
Works for me π€·π»
I do that too!
I also alias ... to cd ../... I'll be honest, I often forget to do it, but in theory it can speed things up.
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Easiest solution, use fish instead of bash! Default fish keybindings will allow you to just type . . or name a directory similar to how you could do with Zoxide.
Also, wait until you find about pushd and popd ;)
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I use a lot cd - (go to previous) or just cd to go home.
cd .. && ls
!!
!!
!!
!!
What's so surprising?? What did you see in that dir??
Double-bang repeats the previous command. Great if you forget sudo.
$ rm -rf <folder>
permission denied
$ sudo !!
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cd ..
!!
!!
!!
Me doing it the worst way > opening up dolphin(file explorer) navigating to the folder then opening terminal there.
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.....
cd .../...
I feel called out. Should definitely make an alias or two that auto CDs me the amount of times I need...
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