backtothefolder, or bttf, allows you to use arrows keys to navigate forward and backward through your path history.
Say you visit the following directories using cd.
~ $> cd ~/Desktop
~/Desktop $> cd /tmp
/tmp $> cd /Applications/
/Applications $>
You can then press "Shift+Alt+Left" to cd into your previous directory:
/tmp $>
Or press "Shift+Alt+Right" to cd into the directory you visited next:
/Applications $>
You can access your path history by running bttf_history.
$> bttf_history
1: /Users/bentzou
2: /Users/bentzou/Desktop
3: /tmp
And jump to specific directories from your history by using bttf.
~ $> bttf 3
/tmp $>
Add a line to your .bash_profile or .bashrc to source this script. Here's an example:
source ~/foo/bar/bttf
Like a browser maintains a history of the pages you've visited, bttf keeps a history of the paths you've visited in the shell variable $BTTF_HISTORY. As you can go backward and forward in the browser, you can use keyboard shortcuts to go backward and forward through your path history.
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