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mac command script to quickly jump between bookmarked directories or fallback to "cd" instead quickly :)
# quick jump to often used directories
# for linux check the differency mention from:
# http://jeroenjanssens.com/2013/08/16/quickly-navigate-your-filesystem-from-the-command-line.html
export MARKPATH=$HOME/.marks
function jump {
cd -P "$MARKPATH/$1" 2>/dev/null || echo "No such mark: $1"
pwd
}
function mark {
mkdir -p "$MARKPATH"; ln -s "$(pwd)" "$MARKPATH/$1"
}
function unmark {
rm -i "$MARKPATH/$1"
}
function marks {
ls -l "$MARKPATH" | tail -n +2 | sed 's/ / /g' | cut -d' ' -f9- | awk -F ' -> ' '{printf "%-10s -> %s\n", $1, $2}'
}
# tab completion for jump and unmark
function _completemarks {
reply=($(ls $MARKPATH))
}
compctl -K _completemarks jump
compctl -K _completemarks unmark
# use cdd, so you can fall back to 'cd' instead quickly :)
alias cdd='jump'
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