1autojump(1) A faster way to navigate your filesystem autojump(1)
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6 autojump - a faster way to navigate your filesystem
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9 j dirspec
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11 jumpstat
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14 One of the most used shell commands is "cd". A quick survey among my
15 friends revealed that between 10 and 20% of all commands they type are
16 actually cd commands! Unfortunately, jumping from one part of your sys‐
17 tem to another with cd requires to enter almost the full path, which
18 isn't very practical and requires a lot of keystrokes.
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20 autojump is a faster way to navigate your filesystem. It works by main‐
21 taining a database of the directories you use the most from the command
22 line. The jumpstat command shows you the current contents of the data‐
23 base. You need to work a little bit before the database becomes use‐
24 able. Once your database is reasonably complete, you can "jump" to a
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29 where dirspec is a few characters of the directory you want to jump to.
30 It will jump to the most used directory whose name matches the pattern
31 given in dirspec. Note that autojump isn't meant to be a drop-in
32 replacement for cd, but rather a complement. Cd is fine when staying in
33 the same area of the filesystem; autojump is there to help when you
34 need to jump far away from your current location.
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36 Autojump supports autocompletion. Try it!
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39 j mp3
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41 could jump to "/home/gwb/my mp3 collection", if that is the directory
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44 jumpstat
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46 will print out something in the lines of:
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48 54.5: /home/shared/musique
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50 60.0: /home/joel/workspace/coolstuff/glandu
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52 83.0: /home/joel/workspace/abs_user/autojump
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54 97.9: /home/joel/workspace/autojump
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56 141.8: /home/joel/workspace/vv
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58 161.7: /home/joel
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60 Total key weight: 1079
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62 The "key weight" reflects the amount of time you spend in a directory.
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65 No known bugs at this time.
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68 Joel Schaerer (joel.schaerer@laposte.net)
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71 autojump is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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73 Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your
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76 autojump is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
77 ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
78 FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
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81 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
82 with autojump. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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871.0 10 February 2009 autojump(1)