[Tools] Using z to jump to "frecent" folders - Command Line Power User

Are you using z? Greatly speed up your file system traversal and say goodbye to finder.

 

Install:

brew install z

 

2. Go the github: https://github.com/rupa/z

3. Download z.sh

4. Save the file to the folder where you won't delete it, for example save to home folder.

5. Check whether it successfully save: 

ls ~/z.sh

You should see the file path.

6. Include into ~/.zshrc

vim ~/.zshrc

Include:

. ~/z.sh

Save it and exit.

7. Apply the changes:

source ~/.zshrc

8. Then you can start nav around your file systems, 'z' will build a database to remeber the path you have visited.

 

9. You can pass options as well, for example:

 -c     restrict matches to subdirectories of the current directory

It will force to stay in current directory and only looking for subdir inside current dir.

 

10. You can list all the match paths

z angular -l

 

11. Matching deep path:

For example you have /programming/framework/angular/...

you can do:

z prog angular