$ cd ..
$ ls
$ cd ..
$ ls
"hmm yes.. everything seems to be in order"
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.
Did that years ago, just called it cds. I also have an "up" command which is an alias to "cds ..". Oh, and I have a "setup server_name" they copy all my aliases to a server and create an alias that allow me to "ssh -A server_name" using only server_name.
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.
It is called windows 2000 explorer and it's great for file operations :) In Linux i have yet to find a really good replacement ;(
Try Dolphin. Press F4 to open the terminal view. It stays in dync with the gui so if you use cd in the terminal, the contents of the new folder will be shown.
pwd seems more appropriate than ls
Doesn't let you rifle through things approvingly as you go. "Yes this is the correct directory because it has the three files I was looking at earlier--
You know what let's do a ls -al just to be super sure it's the right modification
In your rc:
alias ..='cd ..'
alias ...='cd ../..'
alias ....='cd ../../..'
Usage:
1/2/3 $ ...
1 $
That's pretty neat
..... for zsh users
Excuse me what? I've been multi cd'ing for years like a chump?
Exactly. The fucking what now?
alias cd..='cd ..'
alias cd...='cd ../..'
alias cd....='cd ../../..
alias cd.....='cd ../../../..'cd ..
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square
Oh, shit.
for i in { 1..4 }; do cd ..; done
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? :)
Check out Atuin. Its another must have for me. When you push up arrow, it shows your command history in a very pleasing list. You can even generate account keys to migrate your history between PCs, but I've never bothered with it. You can also search past commands on the history menu.
You don't need an account for it. That's only for the migration keys.
I use a lot cd - (go to previous) or just cd to go home.
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
Depending on where you are, maybe just "cd".
Smh when are you going to upgrade to dvd
cd ..
!!
!!
!!
Me doing it the worst way > opening up dolphin(file explorer) navigating to the folder then opening terminal there.
Doesnt dolphin has a terminal in built so you can watch files in gui and still use cli?
Yep you can toggle it with F4
I alias .. to cd ..
Works for me 🤷🏻
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.
.....
alias ..='cd ..' #: up one directory
alias ...='cd ../..' #: up two directories
cd .. && ls
!!
!!
!!
!!
cd .. ls cd .. ls cd .. ls cd .. ls
cd .../...
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 ;)
Hint: :q!
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