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zm – improved cd

zm is cd for lazy people who don’t care where they are, or how to get where they’re going.

zm is a command line tool intended as a convenience layer on top of cd.

This is free and open source software.

The zoom command will look for a directory that ends with the string you gave:

  • In your current folder
  • Recursively from your current folder
  • Recursively from your home directory Once it finds a match, it’ll stop looking and return the path. If it can’t find a match, it’ll just pass back what you gave it.

Website: github.com/benrutter/zm
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Developer: Ben
License: MIT License

zm is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials


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