cdl

This project is a small remake in C of a bash script that i very frequently use. I just wanted to make this a bit more stable and easier to install and thus converted it into a C program with makefile and an install script.

What is this?

It is a very simple command to just save directory paths and quickly switch between them. I use this very often since i got bothered by constantly typing cd ../../../../folder and such. For example, you have the following folder structure:

~/Documents
│
├── work
│   │
│   ├── projectA
│   │   ├── src
│   │   └── docs
│   │
│   └── projectB
│       └── src
│
└── personal
    └── cool_project
        ├── src
        └── docs

in this situation if you want to navigate from ~/Documents/work/projectA/src to your personal project, you would either have to do cd ~/Documents/personal/cool_project or cd ../../../personal/cool_project what this tool allows is for you to be in ~/Documents/personal/cool_project and do cds cool_project and later once you want to navigate to it from anywhere, you can do cdl cool_project instead.

Requirements

• gcc compiler

How to install

To start the installation script just run the following command as root (for bin access)

bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/meir/cdl/main/install.sh)

To uninstall you can use the same script and add uninstall after it.

Nix Flakes

A Nix Flake is provided that you can install, after it is installed you can add source $(which cdl-alias) in your bash/sh/zsh/fish profile to load in the cdl alias properly.

How to use

This project has a few commands, they're simple CRUD commands to change the cache file.

command	usage	description
cdl	cdl (name)	change directory to last or (name)
cds	cds (name)	save directory path on last or (name)
cdls	cdls	list all saved name + directory paths
cdr	cdr (name)	remove directory path from cache by last or (name)
cdp	cdp (name)	print directory path saved in last or (name)
cdc	cdc	clear non existent paths from cd list