Bookmark


This is a very handy functionality that lets us bookmark folders, and easily navigate to them in the future, rather than manually creating aliases for navigating into each folder.

Sample Use Case

cd /webapps/app1
bookmark app1

then next time you could directly do

go app1

rather than having to cd into the folder manually.

Installation with brew

brew tap pratik60/bookmark
brew install bookmark

Manual Installation

1. Clone (or manually download) the project:

git clone https://github.com/pratik60/bookmark.git ~/bookmark`

2. Add the following line to your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.zshrc file:

[[ -s ~/bookmark/bookmarker.sh ]] && . ~/bookmark/bookmarker.sh

List of Commands

1. Bookmark a folder. If no arguments are passed, it will create a bookmark with that current folder's name.

cd /webapps/app2
bookmark [name]

The file where bookmarks are saved (.bookmarks) will look like this /webapps/app1 firstapp /webapps/app2 app2

2. Unbookmark functionality has been added as well. Will unbookmark current folder if no name is specified.

unbookmark [name]

Error message on unbookmarking a folder that doesn't exist. If you were inside a specific folder which has been bookmarked, it would be removed from list of bookmarks.

3. Show Bookmarks to see list of bookmarks

bookmarksshow 

4. Go - Command to navigate to a folder. Supports completion as well.

go app2

P.S. - Been using this functionality for a long time, can't remember its original author. Code's been heavily modified with a lot of functionalities added by me now. Credit to him/her as well :-)

Drop me a note

To submit a feature request, you can use the github issue queue. To drop me a note or feedback, you can add it as a comment on -: http://preciselyme.com/tech/bookmark-folders