Bookmark folder path for shell

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Problem

You want to bookmark / create shortcut to some path, so you can cd to that folder quickly. For example, if you have a folder in /home/johndoe/project/company/abc, instead of cd to this long path, you can set a bookmark to this path, such that next time you can directly cd to that folder with like goto abc

Solution

Use this bashmarks: https://github.com/bofeng/bashmarks

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git clone https://github.com/bofeng/bashmarks.git
cd bashmarks
make install
echo "source ~/.local/bin/bashmarks.sh" >> ~/.zshrc # to .bashrc if using bash
source ~/.zshrc

Now you can the following command to bookmark folders:

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# set bookmark
cd /home/johndoe/project/company/abc
st abc	# set the bookmark, you can use any name you want, doesn't have to be "abc"
cd ~
gt abc	# now you are in the abc folder

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