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One of the most used shell commands is "cd". A quick survey among my friends revealed that between 10 and 20% of all commands they type are actually cd commands! Unfortunately, jumping from one part of your system to another with cd requires you to enter almost the full path, which isn't very practical and requires a lot of keystrokes.
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*autojump* is a faster way to navigate your filesystem. It works by maintaining a database of the directories you use the most from the command line. The jumpstat command shows you the current contents of the database. You need to work a little bit before the database becomes usable. Once your database is reasonably complete, you can "jump" to a commonly "cd"ed directory by typing:
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*autojump* is a faster way to navigate your filesystem. It works by maintaining a database of the directories you use the most from the command line. The `autojump -s` command shows you the current contents of the database. You need to work a little bit before the database becomes usable. Once your database is reasonably complete, you can "jump" to a commonly "cd"ed directory by typing:
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<b>j</b> dirspec
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could jump to "/home/gwb/my mp3 collection", if that is the directory in which you keep your mp3s.
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<b>jumpstat</b>
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<b>autojump -s</b>
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will print out something in the lines of:
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