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https://github.com/rupa/z (z - jump around)

comment by scary-size · 2026-08-16

I've just been using this for years https://github.com/rupa/z It is simple and does the job

comment by rvrs · 2026-07-13 · in Ask HN: Would filesystem bookmarks be useful in your shell workflow?

…your project is WIP: x uralys/web * M www then you go work with your modifications on your project. https://github.com/rupa/z is perfect to go from projects to projects.

comment by chrisdugne · 2025-11-20 · in CLI tool to check the Git status of multiple projects

…improvement over it that works more reliably on different shells such as Bash and ZSH, though. 0: https://github.com/rupa/z 1: https://github.com/CodesOfRishi/navita/

comment by konfekt · 2025-09-23 · in Zoxide: A Better CD Command

…"X, but written in Y". Maybe there's some feature set difference but they are the same concept. X = https://github.com/rupa/z Y = Rust I already mentioned my utility `choose` in another thread but what you are describing was my philosophy…

comment by theryangeary · 2025-09-23 · in The allure of new languages vs. the necessity of problem-solving

There is a different project called z: https://github.com/rupa/z I’d never heard of it but it was the first search result for “z github”.

comment by sevg · 2025-09-23 · in Zoxide: A Better CD Command

Jump around! https://github.com/rupa/z

comment by tonijn · 2025-01-27 · in Shunpo: Minimalist bash tool to make directory navigation a little bit faster

< https://github.com/gsamokovarov/jump > Personally, I've been using z (< https://github.com/rupa/z >) for ages and never really needed more.

comment by Amorymeltzer · 2025-01-27 · in Shunpo: Minimalist bash tool to make directory navigation a little bit faster

- Visidata - z ( https://github.com/rupa/z ) - fzf - vim - Fastmail - WireGuard - draw.io - PowerShell (it’s difficult to overstate how much PS has improved Windows system administration) - Microsoft PowerToys - WSL (alternating joy and…

comment by justusthane · 2024-04-17 · in Ask HN: What software sparks joy when using?

For even more power use z https://github.com/rupa/z

comment by ARandomerDude · 2023-12-07 · in Cdpath: Easily Navigate Directories in the Terminal

- quickly jump to recent directory: https://github.com/rupa/z - however I find it kinda annoying it seems to forget/ignore(?) directories, anyone know of a better version of this? - quickly opening my personal wiki:…

comment by frfl · 2023-08-13 · in Ask HN: Share a shell script you like

…commands. Most of them I already knew, but z seems like an interesting tool. The docs are here < https://github.com/rupa/z >: z foo cd to most frecent dir matching foo z foo bar cd to most frecent dir matching foo, then bar z -r foo cd to…

comment by thomasahle · 2023-06-27 · in macOS command-line tools you might not know about

…ssh'ed into some random box without fzf, ctrl+R will still work, just with a worse experience. [0] https://github.com/rupa/z

comment by kelnos · 2023-03-21 · in So you've installed `fzf` – now what?

…and LRU heuristics, and it works almost every time. Sometimes it feels like it's reading my mind. https://github.com/rupa/z

comment by febeling · 2022-05-01 · in Fig (YC S20) – Adds IDE-style autocomplete to your existing terminal

I use a “z” as well, but it’s a global cd tool. https://github.com/rupa/z/

comment by dustyharddrive · 2022-04-18 · in Show HN: "q", a DNS query tool with support for UDP, TCP, DoT, DoH, DoQ and ODoH

…2. https://github.com/skywind3000/z.lua 3. https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide 4. https://github.com/rupa/z

comment by beepbooptheory · 2022-03-25 · in A statically typed scripting language that transpiles to Posix sh

Check out “z” - I use it all the time: https://github.com/rupa/z

comment by daveidol · 2021-12-19 · in Ask HN: Why are there so few single-letter command line utilities / tools?

…a specific project repo, your bin etc) however often you don’t! Another interesting tool is Z: https://github.com/rupa/z

comment by brendanfalk · 2021-04-22 · in How to navigate directories faster with Bash (2015)

…name and it takes you there. It also keeps track of your history to rank candidates for popularity. https://github.com/rupa/z/ It's basically CDPATH on stereoids and doesn't require preconfiguration like CDPATH.

comment by alpb · 2021-04-22 · in How to navigate directories faster with Bash (2015)

…the end, less commands to remember) almost everything in the article, especially when combined with https://github.com/rupa/z/ . (or the PS counterpart ZLocation). Might be the type of work of course, but ever since I started using this I…

comment by stinos · 2021-04-22 · in How to navigate directories faster with Bash (2015)

…less manual way to search common directories instead of changing $CDPATH. It's based on 'frecency'. https://github.com/rupa/z

comment by jnpatel · 2021-04-22 · in How to navigate directories faster with Bash (2015)

…having to type the whole path. Some implementations are https://github.com/wting/autojump and https://github.com/rupa/z . A very simplified example: if you call `j pro`, the command should take you to the folder that best matches the name…

comment by rphln · 2021-03-12 · in What's New in SQLite 3.35

…need to install Python solely for autojump. This is especially true, when sshing to servers. [0]: https://github.com/rupa/z

comment by shscs911 · 2021-02-05 · in Fzf – the basics part 1 – layout

…pretty well with zsh (and before that with fish) for me. [0] https://github.com/wting/autojump [1] https://github.com/rupa/z [2] https://github.com/clvv/fasd

comment by cmehdy · 2020-08-22 · in Moreutils – Unix tools that nobody thought to write (2012)

…It manages long paths automatically so you can cd quickly. One of the best tools I've come across. https://github.com/rupa/z

comment by ARandomerDude · 2020-06-04 · in Show HN: Jumpfiles – get more done with fewer keystrokes

…domain name. E.g. ~/Repositories/gitlab.com/harritaylor/project name. I am a heavy user of z ( https://github.com/rupa/z ), so the big nesting doesn't bother me at all. I found that if I tried to organise it into some ~/work ~/projects…

comment by harritaylor · 2020-06-03 · in Ask HN: How do you organise your files and folders?

…figures out what are your most used directories by tracking your shell navigation or something. [1] https://github.com/rupa/z/wiki

comment by bruh2 · 2020-05-09 · in Ask HN: What are your favorite developer-efficiency tips?

The single best shell productivity tip for me was to use z: https://github.com/rupa/z It automatically makes a list of directories you frequently use in your shell and if you type `z a-small-substring-of-the-directory-path` it does a cd to…

comment by alufers · 2020-04-25 · in Shell Productivity Tips and Tricks

…instance I can run “z B” and it’ll jump to my ~/Business directory (and “z ss” would do the same). https://github.com/rupa/z

comment by dceddia · 2020-04-13 · in Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?

fzf is the most fun and productive tool added in my dotfiles in recent years. Mix it with https://github.com/rupa/z or https://github.com/skywind3000/z.lua for fuzzysearch/cd And you can do cool scripts, like: - search your vim edited…

comment by barbuk · 2019-05-31 · in Better Bash History (2012)

Or just github.com/rupa/z

comment by isatty · 2019-05-31 · in Better Bash History (2012)

FZF + Z[1] is amazing: [1] https://github.com/rupa/z

comment by tambourine_man · 2019-05-14 · in The Missing Readline Primer

https://github.com/rupa/rvn is a similar exercise, from the author of https://github.com/rupa/z

comment by dmd · 2019-04-21 · in Fh: File history with ed, diff, awk, sed, and sh

- z (Linux): https://github.com/rupa/z builds a database of every folder I ever go to on the command-line and uses fuzzy search to open the most likely folder when I give z any string argument. It's been such a huge improvement for my CLI…

comment by jplayer01 · 2019-03-28 · in Ask HN: What are your favorite utility desktop apps?

Many interested in autojump could probably get what they want out of nice, pure https://github.com/rupa/z Here's an alternative to fzf, for comparison's sake: https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy

comment by grimgrin · 2019-03-07 · in Writing a Book with Unix

…available for zsh (cdr) for folders that I very recently and infrequently accessed, as well as z ( https://github.com/rupa/z works with bash and zsh). It seems like this z.lua and z are in some way related? It feels far more intuitive and…

comment by jplayer01 · 2019-02-04 · in Z.lua – A new cd command that navigates faster by learning your habits

# z for quickly switching between commonly used dirs eg. `z ex` -> cd /mnt/c/dev/api.extensions # https://github.com/rupa/z source ~/z.sh git helpers # update all git repos in subdirs alias gitp="ls -d */ | xargs -P10 -I{} git -C {} pull"…

comment by ma1f · 2019-01-19 · in Ask HN: Best things in your bash_profile/aliases?

I've been using z and it's great: https://github.com/rupa/z

comment by itaysk · 2019-01-14 · in Ask HN: Best things in your bash_profile/aliases?

…structure a bit less relevant; with z the distance between any two dirs is effectively constant. https://github.com/rupa/z By project, by tool? What do you do with pdfs and reference stuff, surely not Dewey Decimal? ~/proj ---> all my…

comment by JohnBooty · 2019-01-06 · in Ask HN: How do you organise your hard drive?

Is it similar to z ( https://github.com/rupa/z )? If so, why is it better?

comment by natmaka · 2019-01-03 · in Show HN: Goto: CLI for teleporting with your terminal

z - jump around https://github.com/rupa/z

comment by cntlzw · 2018-11-19 · in Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

z - track most-used directories and jump to them https://github.com/rupa/z https://github.com/jethrokuan/z (fish port)

comment by modernerd · 2018-11-19 · in Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

…switching bash script is usually the first thing I miss when away from my own environment: https://github.com/rupa/z

comment by LVB · 2018-10-15 · in Ask HN: What are you favorite tiny tools?

ZSH's z plugin does the same thing. Highly recommended for the ZSH users out there! https://github.com/rupa/z

comment by chuckdries · 2018-08-30 · in CLI: Improved

…to cycle through the matches. See project's home for examples of its work at the link below. [1]: https://github.com/rupa/z

comment by temo4ka · 2018-08-30 · in CLI: Improved

…of them that I can't live without are - git-standup http://github.com/kamranahmedse/git-standup - z https://github.com/rupa/z - ZSH https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh Apart from that, some that I use time to time - curl-size…

comment by kamranahmed_se · 2018-05-07 · in Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?

…in somewhat deep hierarchies. I can still quickly navigate by terminal because I use z.sh [1]. [1]: https://github.com/rupa/z/

comment by johnsonjo · 2018-02-21 · in Ask HN: How you manage files on your computer?

https://github.com/rupa/z could also be interesting for you.

comment by herrvogel- · 2017-10-20 · in FZF and RipGrep – Navigate with bash faster than ever before

I have been using z[1] for a _long_ while now, lovely little thing [1] https://github.com/rupa/z

comment by lavalike · 2017-09-04 · in HomeBrew Analytics – top 1000 packages installed over last year

…entirely. And I'm a person who is no stranger to dot-configs. I've never taken it as far as Z(1), https://github.com/rupa/z . A system builtin is stuff you'd see stowed away in /bin. They are essential low level binaries you have to trust.…

comment by git-pull · 2017-08-03 · in Exa, a modern replacement for ls