During her awesome talk about containers and sandboxes at CraftConf last Friday, Jess Frazelle used a little helper function in her shell to quickly switch into a project’s directory in her shell. This little gem can be found in her dotfiles repository on github. This implementation focuses on being able to easily get into a directory within her GOPATH.
Right now I’m still switching from environment to environment quite frequently so I need something a bit different, though. Not being all that familar with scripting ZSH I need a ton of skimming through the docs but this is what I eventually came up with: cdp. It is more or less a simple function that takes a parameter, scans a handful of directories for folders with the same name as the parameter and cds into the first match.
Since I’ve always wanted to mess around with some autocompletion, that’s also support here. Hacky, but it works for now 😊
Being not really used to writing any Bash or ZSH code my code will probably be offensive to quite a few folks, so I apologize 😊 I might improve this in the future as I learn more about ZSH but for now this does the job for me 😉
A big THANK YOU to Jess Frazelle for the inspiration!
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Alternatively, this website also supports Webmentions. If you write a post on a blog that supports this technique, I should get notified about your link 🙂