rickydodd-tools/marco-polo

Bash script that allows a user to mark a directory and then return to that directory.

Marco, Polo!

Brief

Bash script that lets you mark a directory, using marco, and then return to that directory at any time (assuming the user has not overwritten the desired marco) with polo.

Installation

1. Create the local user configuration directory.

   mkdir ~/.config/marco

2. Create the local user binary directory.

   mkdir ~/bin

3. Clone the contents of the marco-polo repository to the local user binary directory.

   git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/rickydodd/marco-polo ~/bin/

4. Remove the .git and readme.md artefacts.

   rm -rf ~/bin/{.git,.github,readme.md}

5. Set marco to be sourced with every new bash instance.

   echo -e "source ~/bin/marco\n" >> ~/.bashrc

You can restart your terminal emulator or run the command source ~/bin/marco.

Usage

• In a directory you want to mark, run the following command.

  marco

• When you want to return to the marked directory, then run the following command.

  polo