z

Tracks the most used (by frecency) directories and enables quickly navigating to them using string patterns or regular expressions. More information: <https://github.com/rupa/z>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/z.sh
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S z
OS X
brew install z

Tracks the most used (by frecency) directories and enables quickly navigating to them using string patterns or regular expressions. More information: <https://github.com/rupa/z>.

  • Go to a directory that contains "foo" in the name:
    z foo
  • Go to a directory that contains "foo" and then "bar":
    z foo bar
  • Go to the highest-ranked directory matching "foo":
    z -r foo
  • Go to the most recently accessed directory matching "foo":
    z -t foo
  • List all directories in `z`'s database matching "foo":
    z -l foo
  • Remove the current directory from `z`'s database:
    z -x .
  • Restrict matches to subdirectories of the current directory:
    z -c foo

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