Change to Directory Bookmark

A simple shell tool for bookmarking directories in the filesystem. At the moment it only supports bash. If you want contribute by extending the support to other shells you are very welcome :).

Build Dependencies

• cargo >= 1.42.1
• rustc >= 1.41.1

Building and installing

From source

# Build
make
# Install
sudo make install

Binary packages

You can download a binary package (deb/rpm) from here.

Documentation

You can check the man pages with

man cdb

Usage

cdb [OPTION] [--] [bookmark]

Change directory to a bookmark

cdb <bookmark>

where <bookmark> is a bookmark name.

Options

• -h, --help: Prints help information
• -l, --list: List all bookmarks
• -V, --version: Prints version information
• -a, --add <bookmark> <path>: Adds a directory bookmark with name pointing at
• -f, --find <pattern>: List all the bookmark names that start with
• -r, --remove <bookmark>: Removes a directory bookmark with name
• -s, --show <bookmark>: Outputs where is pointing
• -u, --update <bookmark> <new_path>: Updates the path pointed by

Example

# Adds a directory bookmark named "projects" pointing to /home/foo/projects path.
cdb --add projects /home/foo/projects

# Updates the path pointed by the bookmark named "projects" from /home/foo/projects
# to /home/bar/projects.
cdb -u projects /home/bar/projects

# Changes the current directory to the one pointed by "projects" bookmark.
cdb projects