smartcd

Bash scripts to support tab complete / subdirectory search when changing direrectory. See ReadMe for instructions on how to set up.

Setup

Copy setup.sh somewhere you'd like to keep it. I assume it's ~/.scd_setup below.

Note, adjust the source statements to match where you checked out the code.

add source ~/.scd_setup to your ~/.bashrc to add the scd command with full subdirectory pattern serach
add source ~/.scdrc to your ~/.bashrc to enable tab completion. (currently EXPERIMENTAL). have a look in .scdrc to see how to use it.

Examples of use

Ex 1:

To change to the Documents directory in home,

scd ~ Documents

Not very interesting...

Ex 2:

To change to the log directory, and the subdirectory in its tree that contains the word 'error'

scd ~/logs error

Ex 3:

I use it like this. In '.bashrc' I put:

export $paperdir=~/Dropbox/docs/papers

function pcd(){ scd $paperdir $@; }

My and my labmates papers are organized with the following naming convention: <conf><year><subject>/<submission number>. But there's often a lot of them.

So I can:

pcd tro two n1

to cd to ~/Dropbox/docs/papers/vhook/journal/tro2014/tworobot/submission1