goto myproject

Associates your favourite long filesystem paths with short names and makes it easy for you to go to them.

Examples

Add a path:

~$ goto-tool add project /my/very/long/path/to/my/project
Entry 'project' added, points to '/my/very/long/path/to/my/project'.
~$

Go to the path:

~$ goto project
/my/very/long/path/to/my/project$ ls
...

Go to a directory relative to the path:

~$ goto project subdir/anotherSubdir
/my/very/long/path/to/my/project/subdir/anotherSubdir$ ls
...

Removing entries:

~$ goto-tool rm project
Entry 'project' removed.

~$ goto project
Entry 'project' not found.

Listing entries:

~$ goto-tool list
ubin: /usr/bin

Using goto directories with other commands:

~$ ls "$(goget project)"
... contents of project directory ...

~$ gorun vim project foo/bar.c
... editing file foo/bar.c in projects directory ...

Setup

Put the goto-tool python script into your ~/bin folder or some other suitable folder in your $PATH and make it executable.

cp goto-tool ~/bin
chmod u+x ~/bin/goto-tool

After that, edit your shell configuration as described below.

Bash

If you want to use tab completion, you'll need bash_completion.

Ubuntu/Debian users have it already.

For Mac OS X, you can find a detailled installation guide here.

Add the following line at the end of your configuration file, for example ~/.bashrc, to include the goto.bash file in your configuration:

source ~/.local/goto-tool/goto.bash

That's all. Now you're able to use the goto command as shown in the Examples section.

If you want tab completion for the goto and the goto-tools command, include the goto.completion file in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_completion on debian/ubuntu like this:

source ~/.local/goto-tool/goto.completion

ZSH

Add the following line at the end of your configuration file, for example ~/.zshrc, to include the goto.bash file in your configuration:

source ~/.local/goto/goto.bash

To add tab completion support, you may want to add the zsh_completions directory to the fpath in your .zshrc. For example:

fpath=(~/.local/goto-tool/zsh_completions $fpath)

Caveats

There is not much that can go wrong. The only thing that may bug you is that there does not seem to be a way to use goget comfortably in your shell. The reason for this is that whitespaces don't mix well with subshell commands.

This won't work:

$ goto-tool add foo '/foo/bar baz/'
$ ls $(goget foo)

This works:

$ ls "$(goget foo)"

In most cases it is quicker to use gorun to achieve the same:

$ gorun ls foo