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Directory bookmarks for the shell

12 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 1 story, 11 comments · first 2012-12-04 · latest 2025-01-27

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  1. I’ve used “bashmarks” for this for years: https://github.com/huyng/bashmarks Super handy. This looks like it might be more polished version.
    comment by scosman · 2025-01-27 · in Shunpo: Minimalist bash tool to make directory navigation a little bit faster
  2. I've been using zshmarks or bashmarks for years now. I couldn't get by without it at this point. https://github.com/huyng/bashmarks https://github.com/jocelynmallon/zshmarks
    comment by thelastknowngod · 2023-12-07 · in Cdpath: Easily Navigate Directories in the Terminal
  3. I happily use bashmarks to jump to well known directories https://github.com/huyng/bashmarks cd /path/to/project1 s p1 # sets bookmark cd /elsewhere g p1 It also autocompletes bookmarks.
    comment by pmontra · 2021-04-22 · in How to navigate directories faster with Bash (2015)
  4. …is great. Another similar one with less functionality but a stripped down script is "bashmarks": https://github.com/huyng/bashmarks
    comment by farrelle25 · 2021-04-22 · in How to navigate directories faster with Bash (2015)
  5. …Bashmarks[0] for Bash? I have also written a compatible version for Fish called Fishmarks[1]. 0: https://github.com/huyng/bashmarks 1: https://github.com/techwizrd/fishmarks
    comment by techwizrd · 2015-07-13 · in Fish shell 2.2
  6. I use Bashmarks for a few years already ( https://github.com/huyng/bashmarks ). Does this have any advantage, or is it just another NIH thing? Also - if the purpose is to save as much typing as possible, why it isnt a bit shorter command…
    comment by yedpodtrzitko · 2015-02-04 · in Show HN: Goto – A Linux shell 'cd' replacement tool
  7. See also https://github.com/twerth/bashmarks Edit: what I'm actually using is https://github.com/huyng/bashmarks The original link is what I googled on my phone before being able to check it on the computer.
    comment by pmontra · 2015-02-04 · in Show HN: Goto – A Linux shell 'cd' replacement tool
  8. I'm quite happy with https://github.com/huyng/bashmarks Also, the built-in pushd and popd commands are enough sometimes.
    comment by scribu · 2014-01-11 · in Teleportation on the command line
  9. I've been using Bashmarks ( https://github.com/huyng/bashmarks ) for years, which appears to be basically the same thing but with a less verbose interface.
    comment by lazerwalker · 2013-08-17 · in Quickly navigate your filesystem from the command line
  10. This does look very similar to the setup I am using ( https://github.com/huyng/bashmarks )
    comment by straphka · 2013-08-17 · in Quickly navigate your filesystem from the command line
  11. [bashmarks]( https://github.com/huyng/bashmarks ) does something similar: it provides a command to set a named bookmark on the current directory, one to jump to a bookmark, and one to list bookmarks. (It lacks all of the magic of z -- it…
    comment by pydave · 2012-12-04 · in Shell Gamification (how I learn to use my shell aliases)