This is a little PowerShell script that lets you navigate quickly to your
most commonly used locations in your filespace. Rather than typing something
like cd c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc, you can type go winetc. Much
simpler and much more straightforward.
You can also define shortcuts that only apply in a specific directory. For
example, if you have a Visual Studio solution with a deeply nested hierarchy
or with directories pedantically named after the full namespaces to each assembly,
you can define a shortcut, say js, to point to the \Scripts directory in your
web front end.
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Enable scripts on your computer by typing the following at a PowerShell command prompt:
Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Scope CurrentUser
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Run the installation script
install.ps1.
To edit your shortcuts, type the following at a PowerShell command prompt:
vim $(Get-UserGoTargetDescriptor)
Or if you don't use vim, you can use this instead:
notepad $(Get-UserGoTargetDescriptor)
This will bring up your user-level target definition file. It consists of a series of shortcuts and their definitions, for example:
winetc=c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc
docs=c:\users\james\Documents
You can also define shortcuts to web pages:
github=https://github.com/
twitter=https://twitter.com/
Any line beginning with a hash (#) character will be treated as a comment and ignored.
PsShortcuts recognises the tilde (~) as referring to your home directory when it occurs at the start of a path:
docs=~/Documents
For shortcuts that you want to apply only to a specific directory and its subdirectories, create a file called .go in that directory. The syntax is the same.
To see a list of all shortcuts available to you, type go at a PowerShell
command prompt.
To chdir into that particular shortcut, type go followed by the name of
the shortcut that you navigate to.
To follow multiple shortcuts (for example, to chdir into a Visual Studio solution then into shortcuts within that solution), you can type multiple targets, for example:
go project web js
To open an Explorer window in the current directory, type here.