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What's a handy terminal command you use often? (lemm.ee)

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[-] unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 17 hours ago

You'll love zoxide then.

[-] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml -2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

It's six letters. Can't they just call it zd or something? Yeah sure, I can use aliases, but why complicate in the first place?

[-] Yoddel_Hickory@lemmy.ca 14 points 16 hours ago

The command is 'z'

[-] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 0 points 14 hours ago

This is most probably a distro-specific aliasing. Tried it on Guix, it does not work:

$ z
bash: z: command not found

$ zoxide
zoxide 0.9.2
....

[-] unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 14 hours ago

It's in the official docs for zoxide, you are supposed to use the z alias, and many distros just set it up directly like that. I love doing z notes from wherever I am.

[-] 7dev7random7@suppo.fi 0 points 8 hours ago

Description fifth point (5.)

That doesn't require a separate package, especially one which uses eval on every new shell. And isn't messing with my distros or personal aliases (and doesn't introduce cargo-packaging).

Simply adding one to two (you get the gist) directories and a keybind for cd .. is more slick. There are cases where you might use pushd . but even then other tooling should already cover your needs.

It's also so easy that you can temporarly append to $CDPATH for a specific session. But again, then a second pane or pushd is already available.

Now downvote me, lemmy.

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