Jump

Jump gives quick access to the most visited directory for the shortest search term we type.

Installation¶

The deb and rpm package for Ubuntu and Fedora respectively can be downloaded from the releases section of the jump Github repository. The following commands can also be used to directly download and install the program.

Debian/Ubuntu¶

wget https://github.com/gsamokovarov/jump/releases/download/v0.51.0/jump_0.51.0_amd64.deb && sudo dpkg -i jump_0.51.0_amd64.deb

Fedora¶

wget https://github.com/gsamokovarov/jump/releases/download/v0.51.0/jump_0.51.0_amd64.deb && sudo dpkg -i jump_0.51.0_amd64.deb

Integrate jump with shell¶

Add the following line in ~/.bashrc, ~/bash_profile or ~/.zshrc :

eval "$(jump shell zsh)"

Usage¶

The usefullness of j is seen after it has build database of the frequently visited directories. Suppose we go into the config file of polybar using normal way of cd

cd ~/.config/polybar

Then, from anywhere else, we can go to the directory polybar by simply typing,

j pol

For more use cases, visit GitHub Link.