Navita is a Bash and Zsh directory-navigation tool that replaces repetitive path typing with history-aware searching and interactive traversal.
It keeps a history of visited directories and ranks them using frequency, access time and an overall score. Ordinary cd-style paths still work, but search expressions can instead be matched against history so that a short query jumps directly to the highest-ranked destination. Navita also provides separate modes for exploring child directories, parent directories and previously visited paths.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Highest-ranked directory search uses Perl-compatible regular expressions and supports exclusion patterns.
- Recursively searches child directories and lets you select a destination interactively.
- Searches parent-directory trees without requiring repeated ../ sequences.
- Provides a dedicated search across recently visited directories.
- History can be displayed by access time, frequency or calculated score.
- Frecency-style ranking combines how often and how recently directories are used.
- History cleanup can remove invalid paths, ignored paths, custom selections or the complete history.
- An ignore file accepts regular expressions for paths that should not be recorded.
- Can follow symbolic links to their physical targets when configured to do so.
- Supports Bash tab completion and interactive selection through fzf.
- Lets users choose whether fzf performs exact or fuzzy matching.
- Data and configuration locations follow XDG directory conventions and can be overridden with environment variables.
- The command name can be configured, including use as a replacement for the shell’s cd command.
Website: github.com/CodesOfRishi/navita
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Developer: Rishi Kumar
License: Apache License 2.0
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