A bash function that wraps cd to log your directory history.
It is extremely common to need to go back to a directory you’ve visited
recently. mycd exists to solve this problem in the simplest way possible by
remembering the last 15 (by default) directories you’ve visited and providing
a simple way to list and jump to these directories. The directory history is
saved across sessions, and each user gets their own history.
git clone https://github.com/NicholasBHubbard/mycd cp mycd/mycd.bash /etc/profile.d/
You can of course install mycd.bash to any directory you wish.
Next you will need to source mycd.bash from your .bashrc. It is also
recommended that you alias cd to mycd. Add the following lines to your
.bashrc.
if [ -r $DIR/mycd.bash ]; then . $DIR/mycd.bash alias cd=mycd fi
mycd works the same way as regular cd except it accepts two special
arguments.
The first special argument is -- which lists your directory history.
[nick@slacktop ~]$ cd -- 1 /home/nick 2 /etc/rc.d 3 /home/nick/Pictures 4 / 5 /etc
The second special argument is -N where N is one of the numbers listed in
the -- output. This changes your directory to the N‘th directory in your
history.
[nick@slacktop ~]$ cd -3 [nick@slacktop Pictures]$
The MYCD_HIST_LENGTH variable can be set to control the number of history
items that are remembered. This value defaults to 15.
MIT