dirnav

dirnav augments cd by adding the prevd, nextd and cdh commands.

Bash and other POSIX shells lack this convenience feature provided by fish, so I added it in.

Usage

Move through your cd history with prevd and nextd, and visualize your cd history with cdh.

Implementation Notes

The history for each terminal session / PID is stored in /tmp/dirnav{PID}.log. It is up to you to clean this up periodically, if you want to. There is no limit to the size of the history. If you jump to another directory when you're in the middle of the history chain, all following directories are cleared.

Example:

cd ~/Documents/
cd ~/Downloads/
prevd               # You end up at ~/Documents
nextd               # You again end up at ~/Downloads
cdh                 # Show history

Installation:

git clone https://github.com/Krishna-Sivakumar/dirnav.git
cd dirnav
go build
cp dirnav /usr/bin/
cat aliases.sh >> ~./bashrc # (or whatever other shell configuration file you use)