cdplus

Extension to bash cd builtin that lets you quickly switch between any number of directories.

Introduction

Ever felt like there has to be more freedom than skipping between two directories with cd -? Does pushd and popd seem too restraining for its LIFO nature? Maybe cdplus is exactly for you.

It lets you assing index numbers to your current directories and access them later via the good old cd.

Usage

Just source the cdplus.sh script:

source cdplus.sh

or even add the above line to your .bashrc or .bash_profile login script. Then you can make use of its functions:

• add index_number - Index the current directory under "index_number"
• list - Show the list of indexed directories
• flush - Clear all indexes

After you add some indexes (or define them statically in the beginning of the file), just use cd index_number to change directory. If, by coincidence, there actually exists a directory with the number's name, you will cd into it.

Example

user@server:/home/user$ source cdplus.sh
user@server:/home/user$ add 0
user@server:/home/user$ cd /etc/apache2
user@server:/etc/apache2$ add 1
user@server:/etc/apache2$ list
0    /home/user
1    /etc/apache2
user@server:/etc/apache2$ cd 3
Index 3 does not exist
user@server:/etc/apache2$ cd 0
user@server:/home/user$ flush
Directory records flushed

Future

• Add indexing by names
• Add workspaces