{"id":734,"date":"2012-02-04T21:32:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T04:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/?p=734"},"modified":"2012-02-04T21:37:33","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T04:37:33","slug":"autojump-faster-than-cd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/autojump-faster-than-cd\/","title":{"rendered":"Autojump: Faster than ‘cd’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a cool tool: autojump<\/a>, written by Joel Schaerer (thanks, Joel). I spend much of my day as a programmer navigating around in the linux filesystem. Built-in tools like ‘pushd’ and ‘popd’ are nice, as are subprocesses — e.g.<\/p>\n

 (cd ~\/Download && wget http:\/\/somewhere.com\/path\/to\/file)<\/pre>\n
… and when it finishes downloading, I’m still in the directory I was in before the download was started.<\/p>\n
Now there’s autojump to add in to the mix. After I ‘cd’ to various directories, later, I can type ‘j Down’ to cd to my Downloads directory. Very convenient. I just wish it were built into every distribution of linux.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here’s a cool tool: autojump, written by Joel Schaerer (thanks, Joel). I spend much of my day as a programmer navigating around in the linux filesystem. Built-in tools like ‘pushd’ and ‘popd’ are nice, as are subprocesses — e.g. (cd ~\/Download && wget http:\/\/somewhere.com\/path\/to\/file) … and when it finishes downloading, I’m still in the directory … <\/p>\n
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