autojump is an open source tool which offers a faster way to navigate your filesystem.
It works by maintaining a database of the directories you use the most from the command line. Directories need to be visited first before they can be jumped to.
autojump is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Self learning utility.
- Fast navigation.
- Jump to any directory.
- Open a file explorer window (Mac Finder, Windows Explorer, GNOME Nautilus, etc.) to the directory.
- Use multiple arguments.
- Matching priority:
- Exact match.
- Case insensitive match.
- Approximate match.
- Options to manually increase or decrease weight of the current directory.
- Supports the following shells: bash 4.0 or higher, zsh, fish, tcsh and clink.
- Unicode support.
- Multi-platform support.
Website: github.com/wting/autojump
Support:
Developer: William Ting (originally written by Joël Schaerer)
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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