goto-folder

goto-folder is a tool that you can use to save named bookmarks for your local directories. Instead of typing the entire path of a folder you commonly use, you can bookmark that folder and just goto them.

Usage

First we need to add a bookmark. We can do that by setting the $GOTOFOLDERS environment var

export GOTOFOLDERS=small:/home/user/long/path,$GOTOFOLDERS

Now you can go to your bookmarked folder from anywhere

$ goto small

Please note the path in $GOTOFOLDERS must be an absolute path

The .goto file

You can also add your bookmarks to a file called .goto. This file can be localed anywhere on you file path. goto will look for those files in your current directory and all directories above, up until your user's home folder.

Inside .goto the paths can be either absolute or relative paths. If the path is relative, it will be resolved relative to where the .goto file containing the bookmark is located.

Instalation

After cloning this repository, add the following line to your bash startup script (usually ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile)

source /path/to/goto-folder/goto.bash

To add code completion (which I highly recommend), add the following line too:

source /path/to/goto-folder/goto-completion.bash

History

goto-folder used to be a bash script I maintened in my machine for many years. The script was very useful but it wasn't very portable and contained some bugs. Instead of dealing with a code mess I decided to rewrite the entire thing in Python.

We still rely on bash scripting in order to properly change folders (the python program only resolves the bookmark name to an absolute path), but now I can have my tool working without bugs and I'm finally able to expand it to add more features