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cd /some/thing/i/remember
Depending on where you are, maybe just "cd".
Smh when are you going to upgrade to dvd
I alias .. to cd ..
Works for me π€·π»
I do that too!
I also alias ... to cd ../... I'll be honest, I often forget to do it, but in theory it can speed things up.
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cd .....
I use zsh btw
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
donβt even need the cd since if itβs a dir, zsh automatically cd to that path ;)
just β¦.. works great
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More like cdβ¦ dir cdβ¦ dir cdβ¦
Or the alias I have set up
β¦..
I kept saying "cd up" in my mind so I just made an alias for cdu, became a reflex within the next day
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Me doing it the worst way > opening up dolphin(file explorer) navigating to the folder then opening terminal there.
Doesnt dolphin has a terminal in built so you can watch files in gui and still use cli?
Yep you can toggle it with F4
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git () { if [ "$1" = "cd" ] then shift cd "./$(command git rev-parse --show-cdup)$*" else command git "$@" fi }
Wait until we tell them about autojump
cd .
Nah, I always cd to full path, that way I can easily use my history to move back there
Tbf it is less key presses since you can generally just recall the last command.
td aliased to cd $(whatever the command is to get the got root directory)
I created a script called GoUpALevel.