What ?

Another command line tool that lets you move faster between different directories.

How ?

• Add the following line to your .bashrc pointing to the script directory

source $PATH_TO_SCRIPT/mark

• When in a directory that you want to mark, just type mark

• To list the marks, just type mark ls

• A number / index is assigned to each marks. which will be outputted when using mark ls

• To cd to a directory, type mark cd <number>

• Some aliases are defined for ease of use

  • m is an alias for mark
  • mcd is an alias for mark cd
  • mls is an alias for mark ls

Example

[user@host ~/dev/scripts/project1 ]$ mark

[user@host ~/dev/scripts/project1 ]$ mls
1 /home/user/dev/repositories/project_x/src
2 /home/user/dev/scripts/project1 

[user@host ~/dev/scripts/project1 ]$ mcd 1

[user@host ~/dev/repositories/project_x/src ]$ 

Changing location of .mark file

• By default, the mark file is located in $HOME/.mark. You can change this behaviour by modifying the $MARK_FILE environment variable