cd ..
pwd
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$ 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
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Sometimes I throw off the linux admin reading my log by throwing in a pwd before going to the next one. Know it's not gonna be in that directory you know?
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cd ..
ls
ls -la
cd ..
ls
cd ..
rm -rf /
cd ..
cd ..
history
!1
!1
!1
...
cd ..
!!
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cd ./..
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?
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Tbf it is less key presses since you can generally just recall the last command.
I guess if you enjoy being a virgin that much you can do it that way.
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I alias .. to cd ..
Works for me π€·π»
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.
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Or the alias I have set up
β¦..
Ya, this is the way. I use ... all the time
Once you've typed .. you know if you type more dots it's to go up more dir, so you don't really need two dots for each additional dir.
Yeah so it was five dots for four directories up. I also have
β¦ for 2
And
β¦. for 3
I donβt think I have one for 5. Iβd have to look. I also use autojump and fzf which is very useful.
I kept saying "cd up" in my mind so I just made an alias for cdu, became a reflex within the next day
The history of the CTO at a previous job was filled with dc and sl because he was a fucking moron. Yes I'm still bitter that he earned way more money than me who had to fix all his mess.
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bourne-Shell-Builtins.html#index-cd
TIL about $CDPATH may have to populate that!
Why no cd /////// speceficterm if you know how deep it is
Those are supposed to be stars. I'm not fixing this on a phone
cd .. ls cd .. ls cd .. ls cd .. ls
I've used a script that made 'up 4' a thing. Forgot to migrate it though.
Biggest issue I have with custom macros is Iβm logging into like 5 different machines a day. Donβt wanna keep copying over my custom bash files. Prefer built-in commands.
Me too. Would love a tool that allows me to have bells and whistles on my remote machines without having to install extra packages on them.
Yeah, I get that. But I'm traversing my machine a lot while developing, so I want that as hassle free as possible.
Heyy I have that in my .bashrc
Works a charm
Had it in my .zshrc. I should look for it, it was helpful
~$ mkdir -p 1/2/3/4
~$ pushd 1
~/1 ~
1$ pushd 2/3/4
~/1/2/3/4 ~/1 ~
4$ popd
~/1 ~
1$
Depending on where you are, maybe just "cd".
Smh when are you going to upgrade to dvd
Honestly I haven't tried this on Linux yet, but didn't Windows implement this somewhere along the way?...
cd ....
Windows be like
cd ..
ls
grumble grumble
dir
Wanna fix that real quick?
echo @dir %1 %2 %3 %4>%SystemRoot%\System32\ls.bat
I believe, zsh supports that.
Interesting, I might have to check that out someday.
Though when I write scripts, I'm not a fan of blind folder navigation like that, there's a good reason for the pushd and popd script commands.
Oh yeah, I wouldn't use that for scripts. I wouldn't use zsh for scripts either.
I mean, I believe, it's generally compatible with bash, but just throwing a shebang like #!/bin/sh or #!/bin/bash into the first line of the script will make it execute with sh or bash, even when you run it from zsh.
I aliased cd to a custom funtion in my bashrc to do this at one point, but cd ../../../.. is too engrained so I never rembered to use it.
You will probably like zoxide (i am not sure about policy on links here, but here you go https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide)
Zoxide is nice, or use Yazi so you can actually see where you're going.
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