autojump(1) A faster way to navigate your filesystem autojump(1)NAMEautojump - a faster way to navigate your filesystem
SYNOPSIS
j dirspec
jumpstat
DESCRIPTION
One of the most used shell commands is "cd". A quick survey among my
friends revealed that between 10 and 20% of all commands they type are
actually cd commands! Unfortunately, jumping from one part of your sys‐
tem to another with cd requires to enter almost the full path, which
isn't very practical and requires a lot of keystrokes.
autojump is a faster way to navigate your filesystem. It works by main‐
taining a database of the directories you use the most from the command
line. The jumpstat command shows you the current contents of the data‐
base. You need to work a little bit before the database becomes use‐
able. Once your database is reasonably complete, you can "jump" to a
directory by typing:
j dirspec
where dirspec is a few characters of the directory you want to jump to.
It will jump to the most used directory whose name matches the pattern
given in dirspec. Note that autojump isn't meant to be a drop-in
replacement for cd, but rather a complement. Cd is fine when staying in
the same area of the filesystem; autojump is there to help when you
need to jump far away from your current location.
Autojump supports autocompletion. Try it!
EXAMPLES
j mp3
could jump to "/home/gwb/my mp3 collection", if that is the directory
in which you keep your mp3s.
jumpstat
will print out something in the lines of:
54.5: /home/shared/musique
60.0: /home/joel/workspace/coolstuff/glandu
83.0: /home/joel/workspace/abs_user/autojump
97.9: /home/joel/workspace/autojump
141.8: /home/joel/workspace/vv
161.7: /home/joel
Total key weight: 1079
The "key weight" reflects the amount of time you spend in a directory.
BUGS
No known bugs at this time.
AUTHOR
Joel Schaerer (joel.schaerer@laposte.net)
LICENSEautojump is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.
autojump is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with autojump. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
1.0 10 February 2009 autojump(1)