autojump - a faster way to navigate your filesystem
autojump is a faster way to navigate your filesystem. It works by maintaining a database of the directories you use the most from the command line.
Directories must be visited first before they can be jumped to.
j
is a convenience wrapper function around autojump
. Any option that
can be used with autojump
can be used with j
and vice versa.
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Jump To A Directory That Contains
foo
:j foo
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Jump To A Child Directory:
Sometimes it's convenient to jump to a child directory (sub-directory of current directory) rather than typing out the full name.
jc bar
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Open File Manager To Directories (instead of jumping):
Instead of jumping to a directory, you can open a file explorer window (Mac Finder, Windows Explorer, GNOME Nautilus, etc.) to the directory instead.
jo music
Opening a file manager to a child directory is also supported:
jco images
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Using Multiple Arguments:
Let's assume the following database:
30 /home/user/mail/inbox 10 /home/user/work/inbox
j in
would jump into /home/user/mail/inbox as the higher weighted entry. However you can pass multiple arguments to autojump to prefer a different entry. In the above example,j w in
would then change directory to /home/user/work/inbox.
For more options refer to help:
autojump --help
- Python v2.6+ except v3.2
- Supported shells:
- bash v4.0+
- zsh
- fish
- tcsh (experimental)
- clink (Windows, experimental)
autojump is included in the following distro repositories, please use relevant package management utilities to install (e.g. yum, apt-get, etc):
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Debian testing/unstable, Ubuntu, Linux Mint
All Debian-derived distros require manual activation for policy reasons, please see
/usr/share/doc/autojump/README.Debian
. -
RedHat, Fedora, CentOS (install
autojump-zsh
for zsh,autojump-fish
for fish, etc.) -
ArchLinux
-
Gentoo
-
Frugalware
-
Slackware
Homebrew is the recommended installation method for Mac OS X:
brew install autojump
MacPorts also available:
port install autojump
Windows support is enabled by clink which should be installed prior to installing autojump.
Grab a copy of autojump:
git clone git://github.com/joelthelion/autojump.git
Run the installation script and follow on screen instructions.
cd autojump
./install.py or ./uninstall.py
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autojump does not support directories that begin with
-
. -
For bash users, autojump keeps track of directories by modifying
$PROMPT_COMMAND
. Do not overwrite$PROMPT_COMMAND
:export PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a"
Instead append to the end of the existing $PROMPT_COMMAND:
export PROMPT_COMMAND="${PROMPT_COMMAND:+$PROMPT_COMMAND ;} history -a"
For any questions or issues please visit:
https://github.com/wting/autojump/issues
autojump was originally written by Joël Schaerer, and currently
maintained by William Ting. More contributors can be found in AUTHORS
.
Copyright © 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.