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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    The good thing about Dolphin is you can have the real tree following your navigation. Want to go up a few levels, just click once, directly where you want to go next. None of this up, up, up nonsense. Great for snooping in many different folders in quick succession.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
    alias ..='cd ..' #: up one directory
    alias ...='cd ../..' #: up two directories
    
    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

    The first two options (autocd and cdspell) have been a lifesaver in fixing my frustrations with the default bash settings (and even lets me stick with bash, instead of feeling I should move to zsh or any other shell.

    I can just type a foldername, tabcomplete it and press enter to go there. It's great.

    # == shopts ==
    # https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/The-Shopt-Builtin.html
    shopt -s autocd         # cd into folder without cd, so 'dotfiles' will cd into the folder
    shopt -s cdspell        # attempt spelling correcting on folders
    shopt -s direxpand      # expand a partial dir name
    shopt -s checkjobs      # stop shell from exit when there's jobs running
    shopt -s dirspell       # attempt spelling correcting on folders
    shopt -s expand_aliases # aliases are expanded
    shopt -s histappend     # append to the history file, don't overwrite it
    shopt -s histreedit     # lets your re-edit old executed command
    shopt -s histverify     # I'm confused.
    shopt -s hostcomplete   # performs completion when a word contains an '@'
    shopt -s cmdhist        # save multiple-line command in single history entry
    shopt -u lithist        # multi-lines are saved with embedded newlines rather than semicolons; explictly unset
    shopt -s checkwinsize # update LINES and COLUMNS to fit output
    
    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    You forgot the pwd after each 'cd'.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Ls doesn't tell them where they are, just what files exist in their current location.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Yup,

    But I want to know if the file I'm looking for is in this directory or I have to cd.. once more

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

    That's when locate piped to grep is your best friend.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    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 ;)

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    Really buried the lede there: pushd and popd are what I use instead of cd most times!

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    alias cdr='cd /'

    Heh

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

    I feel called out. Should definitely make an alias or two that auto CDs me the amount of times I need...

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

    Childhood me with only MS-DOS machines is all feeling nostalgic.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

    More like cd… dir cd… dir cd…

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago
    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    What's so surprising?? What did you see in that dir??

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Double-bang repeats the previous command. Great if you forget sudo.

    $ rm -rf <folder>
    permission denied
    $ sudo !!
    
    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

    Haha yeah I was just being silly

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

    cd /some/thing/i/remember

    [–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
    alias cd..='cd ..'
    alias cd...='cd ../..'
    alias cd....='cd ../../..
    alias cd.....='cd ../../../..'
    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Then forget all that and just use

    cd ~ or cd /

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

    No need for ~ - just cd works as well.

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago
    cd ..
    !!
    !!
    !!
    
    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago
    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago
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