qdr (quick directories) is a lightweight bash script that allows you to navigate easily through the file system. By assigning a tag (key) to a specific path, the tool redirects you to the desired location in the current shell execution environment.
The script is designed to save the path of favourite directories that might
take extensive typing to relocate to, assigning a tag to it. For example,
if I am in ~/Desktop/path/to/desired/folder, I can assign a tag to it
qdr -i <key>
and, in the future, I would be able to move to that folder just by typing
qdr <key>
without having to cd the whole path.
The tool saves a list of key -> path in a file (.qdr_table) located
in the home directory (~).
Additionally, the tool allows you to remove the saved reference from the table or list the saved entries.
There are two different files in the repository that can be used.
b_qdr.sh for bash terminals and z_qdr.sh for zsh.
The distinction has been made due to syntactical difference in handling associative arrays.
The other files in the repo are just tests and documentation.
Once the file(s) has been downloaded, you need to source the script in your specific config file (.bashrc | .zshrc). The reason is that the script would need to run in the current shell environment and not in a sub-shell.
The help command is qdr -h or qdr --help.
The script uses Associative Arrays. Bash supports them starting from version 4.
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paths are not dynamic, meaning if you move a directory in another location the entry in the table won't be updated automatically. You'll need to delete the old entry and enter the new one.
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no keys autocompletion