Autojump: blazing fast filesystem navigation

autojump - A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line

I just ran across a very convenient little tool called autojump that I wanted to share.

For a number of years, i’ve used aliases in Bash for quickly navigating the file system. autojump makes this unnecessary.

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This requires that you have brew installed and use Bash as your shell

Installation

brew install autojump
echo '[[ -s `brew --prefix`/etc/autojump.sh ]] && . `brew --prefix`/etc/autojump.sh' >> ~/.bash_profile 
source ~/.bash_profile

Usage

cd /path/to/my-project
j my-project

Please note that you need to cd into the directory before it appears in the index.

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