$ cd .. $ ls $ cd .. $ ls“hmm yes… everything seems to be in order”
I need a shell/plugin/tool/whatever that always shows me the content of the current dir in a little popup or something.
Anything I do in the shell is like cd this, ls, cd there, ls *, I feel like a have the navigational awareness of a amnesiac goldfish
Put this in bashrc or whatever flavour of shells’s bashrc you use:
function cs () { cd “$@” && ls }
I didnt remember the function sintax of bash so I just copied it from SO.
cs () { cd $1; ls ${@:2} }You (probably) only want to pass the first argument to
cd, this’ll send the rest tols.Did that years ago, just called it cds. I also have an “up” command which is an alias to “cds …”. Oh, and I have a “setup server_name” they copy all my aliases to a server and create an alias that allow me to “ssh -A server_name” using only server_name.
Alternatively, you could use a TUI file manager. Once you get the navigation down you can manage things pretty quickly. Especially with ones that have options for dual directory layouts, like Midnight Commander or vifm.
It is called windows 2000 explorer and it’s great for file operations :) In Linux i have yet to find a really good replacement ;(
Try Dolphin. Press F4 to open the terminal view. It stays in dync with the gui so if you use cd in the terminal, the contents of the new folder will be shown.
That sounds really cool but I spent so much time making things look pretty …
What’s a GUI?
that, or you have to make ABSOLUTELY SURE that you haven’t accidentally pressed a button on your keyboard that has inevitably resulted in the total destruction of the directory contents
A window, you say!?
pwdseems more appropriate thanlsDoesn’t let you rifle through things approvingly as you go. "Yes this is the correct directory because it has the three files I was looking at earlier–
You know what let’s do a ls -al just to be super sure it’s the right modification
fair point
Sometimes I throw off the linux admin reading my log by throwing in a pwd before going to the next one. Know it’s not gonna be in that directory you know?
In your rc: alias ..='cd ..' alias ...='cd ../..' alias ....='cd ../../..' Usage: 1/2/3 $ ... 1 $That’s pretty neat
This is the way.
Or just use zsh
Yeah, let’s use whole different shell, because you can’t add some few aliases to your
.bashrc.That’s not why I use a whole different shell. It just happens to be a perk of the one I use.
.....for zsh usersExcuse me what? I’ve been multi cd’ing for years like a chump?
Exactly. The fucking what now?
alias cd..='cd ..' alias cd...='cd ../..' alias cd....='cd ../../.. alias cd.....='cd ../../../..'Then forget all that and just use
cd ~orcd /No need for
~- justcdworks as well.
cd ..
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Oh, shit.
for i in { 1…4 }; do cd …; done
Try zoxide
Installing zoxide led me to installing fzf, which has improved my terminal experience by about 35%, I already installed it in all the machines I’m managing
Got any more tools? :)
Check out Atuin. Its another must have for me. When you push up arrow, it shows your command history in a very pleasing list. You can even generate account keys to migrate your history between PCs, but I’ve never bothered with it. You can also search past commands on the history menu.
You don’t need an account for it. That’s only for the migration keys.
I don’t think there’s anything too unusual but here’s my nix packages
{ pkgs }: with pkgs; [ # General packages for development copier # Project scaffolding and templating fastlane jujutsu just # Project specific command runner mise # Tool version manager ngrok # Public tunnel ngrok.com sqlite pre-commit trufflehog # Scan for secrets in code repositories # Encryption and security tools age age-plugin-yubikey gnupg libfido2 # Container tools and SDKs colima podman podman-compose # Media-related packages dejavu_fonts ffmpeg hack-font noto-fonts noto-fonts-emoji meslo-lgs-nf yt-dlp # Text and terminal utilities bat btop # resource monitor #chezmoi # manage dotfiles; to try coreutils # GNU system tools curl delta exiftool f3 # flash drive verification tool fd # alternate find command fzf htop iftop jq # command line JSON tool # openssh ripgrep s3cmd shellcheck # static analysis for shell scripts tree tmux unison unrar unzip wget zip zoxide # fish specific fishPlugins.foreign-env fishPlugins.forgit fishPlugins.fzf-fish fishPlugins.tide fishPlugins.z # Python packages python3 virtualenv ]Yeah, these two are fucking awesome. I recently installed zoxide and OMG, i dont know how ive lived without it.
Other awesome tools: Eza - prettier ls Yazi - vim-like file manager
Are you sure it’s not 33.3, repeating, of course? Just making sure.
zoxide, btop and lazygit are a must for me in any computer.
Yup. I usually have zoxide installed. It’s grand.
I use a lot
cd -(go to previous) or justcdto go home.i use fish shell with https://github.com/nickeb96/puffer-fish
basically when i type
it expands to../..and adds another/..for every additional dot i typeits similar to what the zsh users in the comment section are doing
I was about to post something similar. With fish you can do your own functions, right? So, you can pass any dots as arguments to a function called
cd, so, for every extra dot after.., you append a/..at the end.yeah, but its less visual
cd .....is harder to understand thancd ../../../..also the extension work with any commend, not just
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You forgot the pwd after each ‘cd’.
ls*
Ls doesn’t tell them where they are, just what files exist in their current location.
Yup,
But I want to know if the file I’m looking for is in this directory or I have to cd… once more
That’s when locate piped to grep is your best friend.
cd .....I use zsh btwWhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
don’t even need the cd since if it’s a dir, zsh automatically cd to that path ;)
just
…..works greatI didn’t know that. Thanks!
Depending on where you are, maybe just “cd”.
Smh when are you going to upgrade to dvd
cd .. !! !! !!Me doing it the worst way > opening up dolphin(file explorer) navigating to the folder then opening terminal there.
Doesnt dolphin has a terminal in built so you can watch files in gui and still use cli?
Yep you can toggle it with F4
Yes I use it sometime but then I close it and forget about it
I like ranger (https://github.com/ranger/ranger).
cd …
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cd …
history
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cd .. !! !! !!
