dash bookmarks for your terminal

Dash is a simple to use tool that allows you to bookmark certain directories that you use in your terminal. We call these bookmarks a dash.

When you save a dash, the script will automatically save the followign environment variables: PWD. You can override which variables are saved, making it simple to customize your dash environments even further!

Examples, features & usage

Dash is easy to use. After installing, you can try the following:

Display help:

$ dash
usage: 
    dash [-h help | -ls list | -l load | -s save | -rm delete] [name]

Save a dash

$ cd ~/dev/projects
$ dash -s projects

View saved dashes

$ dash -ls
desk       | Desktop/
dev        | dev/
home       | myuser/
media      | mediaserver/
projects   | projects/
research   | client/

Load a dash

$ cd ~
$ dash -l projects
'projects' dash loaded.
$ pwd
/Users/myuser/dev/projects

Note, dash <name> is shorthand for dash -l <name>

Load a dash and move deeper into the directory

$ cd ~
$ dash -l projects/mediaserver/client
'projects' dash loaded. Moved to 'mediaserver/client'
$ pwd
/Users/myuser/dev/projects/mediaserver/client

To change which environment variables are saved you will need to modify ~/.dash/.profile. This file is auto-generated the first time you run the script, and every line in this file corresponds to one env variable that will be saved for each new dash. Just list which variables you'd like to save, and each dash you save in the future will save only those variables.

##Dependencies Dash is a bash script, so you need to have the bash shell installed in order to use it.

Installation

Find a home for dash.sh
Add the following to your .bashrc or .bash_profile file: alias dash="source <location from step 1>/dash.sh"
Either open a new bash shell, or if you already have a bash shell open, run source ~/.bashrc or source ~/.bash_profile

nmiodice/dash

dash bookmarks for your terminal

Examples, features & usage

Installation