That is the way

    
$ cd ..
$ ls
$ cd ..
$ ls

"hmm yes.. everything seems to be in order"

I need a shell/plugin/tool/whatever that always shows me the content of the current dir in a little popup or something.
Anything I do in the shell is like cd this, ls, cd there, ls *, I feel like a have the navigational awareness of a amnesiac goldfish
- Put this in bashrc or whatever flavour of shells's bashrc you use:
  function cs () { cd "$@" && ls }
  I didnt remember the function sintax of bash so I just copied it from SO.
- Alternatively, you could use a TUI file manager. Once you get the navigation down you can manage things pretty quickly. Especially with ones that have options for dual directory layouts, like Midnight Commander or vifm.
- It is called windows 2000 explorer and it's great for file operations :) In Linux i have yet to find a really good replacement ;(
- A window, you say!?
- that, or you have to make ABSOLUTELY SURE that you haven't accidentally pressed a button on your keyboard that has inevitably resulted in the total destruction of the directory contents
- You probably want rangerfm or vifm. They use miller columns for to show you your surrounding context.
pwd seems more appropriate than ls
shell

cd .. pwd ls ls -a tree -d git status -bs cd .. ...
- I ain't reading allat
Sometimes I throw off the linux admin reading my log by throwing in a pwd before going to the next one. Know it's not gonna be in that directory you know?

        In your rc:
    alias ..='cd ..'
    alias ...='cd ../..'
    alias ....='cd ../../..'

    Usage:
    1/2/3 $ ...
    1 $

cd ..
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..... for zsh users

Excuse me what? I've been multi cd'ing for years like a chump?
- Exactly. The fucking what now?

cd .. ls cd .. ls cd .. ls cd .. ls

Depending on where you are, maybe just "cd".

Smh when are you going to upgrade to dvd

for i in { 1..4 }; do cd ..; done

Try zoxide

Installing zoxide led me to installing fzf, which has improved my terminal experience by about 35%, I already installed it in all the machines I'm managing
Got any more tools? :)
- Check out Atuin. Its another must have for me. When you push up arrow, it shows your command history in a very pleasing list. You can even generate account keys to migrate your history between PCs, but I've never bothered with it. You can also search past commands on the history menu.
  You don't need an account for it. That's only for the migration keys.
- Yeah, these two are fucking awesome. I recently installed zoxide and OMG, i dont know how ive lived without it.
  Other awesome tools: Eza - prettier ls Yazi - vim-like file manager
- I don't think there's anything too unusual but here's my nix packages
  
  { pkgs }: with pkgs; [ # General packages for development copier # Project scaffolding and templating fastlane jujutsu just # Project specific command runner mise # Tool version manager ngrok # Public tunnel ngrok.com sqlite pre-commit trufflehog # Scan for secrets in code repositories # Encryption and security tools age age-plugin-yubikey gnupg libfido2 # Container tools and SDKs colima podman podman-compose # Media-related packages dejavu_fonts ffmpeg hack-font noto-fonts noto-fonts-emoji meslo-lgs-nf yt-dlp # Text and terminal utilities bat btop # resource monitor #chezmoi # manage dotfiles; to try coreutils # GNU system tools curl delta exiftool f3 # flash drive verification tool fd # alternate find command fzf htop iftop jq # command line JSON tool # openssh ripgrep s3cmd shellcheck # static analysis for shell scripts tree tmux unison unrar unzip wget zip zoxide # fish specific fishPlugins.foreign-env fishPlugins.forgit fishPlugins.fzf-fish fishPlugins.tide fishPlugins.z # Python packages python3 virtualenv ]
- I can recommend featureful terminal emulator Kitty. I'd been using tmux and screen for over a decade, but now just get that functionality baked into the terminal. The only time I use tmux now is for remote sessions.
- Are you sure it's not 33.3, repeating, of course? Just making sure.
- eza is pretty cool, too. I replacement for ls which has built in tree view, dir size summary, and git status.
zoxide, btop and lazygit are a must for me in any computer.
Yup. I usually have zoxide installed. It's grand.

I alias .. to cd ..

Works for me 🤷🏻

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.

I use a lot cd - (go to previous) or just cd to go home.

i use fish shell with https://github.com/nickeb96/puffer-fish

basically when i type ... it expands to ../.. and adds another /.. for every additional dot i type

its similar to what the zsh users in the comment section are doing

I was about to post something similar. With fish you can do your own functions, right? So, you can pass any dots as arguments to a function called cd, so, for every extra dot after .., you append a /.. at the end.
- yeah, but its less visual
  cd ..... is harder to understand than cd ../../../..
  also the extension work with any commend, not just cd

Or the alias I have set up

…..

I kept saying "cd up" in my mind so I just made an alias for cdu, became a reflex within the next day
Once you've typed .. you know if you type more dots it's to go up more dir, so you don't really need two dots for each additional dir.
- Yeah so it was five dots for four directories up. I also have
  … for 2
  And
  …. for 3
  I don’t think I have one for 5. I’d have to look. I also use autojump and fzf which is very useful.
Ya, this is the way. I use ... all the time

cd ..

cd ..
history
!1
!1
!1
...
- cd .. !! !! !!

cd ..... I use zsh btw

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
don’t even need the cd since if it’s a dir, zsh automatically cd to that path ;)
just ….. works great
- I didn't know that. Thanks!

    
cd ..
!!
!!
!!

Tbf it is less key presses since you can generally just recall the last command.

alias .4=cd ../../../..

alias -g .4="../../../.."

    
alias ..='cd ..' #: up one directory
alias ...='cd ../..' #: up two directories

The first two options (autocd and cdspell) have been a lifesaver in fixing my frustrations with the default bash settings (and even lets me stick with bash, instead of feeling I should move to zsh or any other shell.

I can just type a foldername, tabcomplete it and press enter to go there. It's great.

 bash

    
# == shopts ==
# https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/The-Shopt-Builtin.html
shopt -s autocd         # cd into folder without cd, so 'dotfiles' will cd into the folder
shopt -s cdspell        # attempt spelling correcting on folders
shopt -s direxpand      # expand a partial dir name
shopt -s checkjobs      # stop shell from exit when there's jobs running
shopt -s dirspell       # attempt spelling correcting on folders
shopt -s expand_aliases # aliases are expanded
shopt -s histappend     # append to the history file, don't overwrite it
shopt -s histreedit     # lets your re-edit old executed command
shopt -s histverify     # I'm confused.
shopt -s hostcomplete   # performs completion when a word contains an '@'
shopt -s cmdhist        # save multiple-line command in single history entry
shopt -u lithist        # multi-lines are saved with embedded newlines rather than semicolons; explictly unset
shopt -s checkwinsize # update LINES and COLUMNS to fit output

    
cd .. && ls
!!
!!
!!
!!

What's so surprising?? What did you see in that dir??
- Double-bang repeats the previous command. Great if you forget sudo.
  bash
  
  $ rm -rf <folder> permission denied $ sudo !!

    
.....

cd - helps

- returns you to the previous path rather than repeat the last cd right? so cd - would undo the cd ..
- Point was: most of the time I see someone spending time counting the requisite number of ..s, all they really wanna do is “go back to where I was before”.
  cd foo/bar/baz/qux and cd - is better than cd foo/bar/baz/qux and cd ../../../..

    
~$ mkdir -p 1/2/3/4
~$ pushd 1
~/1 ~
1$ pushd 2/3/4
~/1/2/3/4 ~/1 ~
4$ popd
~/1 ~
1$

Easiest solution, use fish instead of bash! Default fish keybindings will allow you to just type . . or name a directory similar to how you could do with Zoxide.

Also, wait until you find about pushd and popd ;)

Really buried the lede there: pushd and popd are what I use instead of cd most times!

Wait until we tell them about autojump

cd .../...

The history of the CTO at a previous job was filled with dc and sl because he was a fucking moron. Yes I'm still bitter that he earned way more money than me who had to fix all his mess.

You could have gifted him some silly fun with the sl package.

Why no cd /////// speceficterm if you know how deep it is

Those are supposed to be stars. I'm not fixing this on a phone

I feel called out. Should definitely make an alias or two that auto CDs me the amount of times I need...

git () { if [ "$1" = "cd" ] then shift cd "./$(command git rev-parse --show-cdup)$*" else command git "$@" fi }

cd..

Childhood me with only MS-DOS machines is all feeling nostalgic.

cd /some/thing/i/remember

z myDir

Nah, I always cd to full path, that way I can easily use my history to move back there

More like cd… dir cd… dir cd…

td aliased to cd $(whatever the command is to get the git root directory)

    
cd .

cd ./..
cd ../._

    
cd ..
pwd

and then rinse and repeat for every level because you just don’t trust that mischievous cd

alias cdr='cd /'

Heh

Sometimes I have to swap between two routed for several things, so I create a quick in-memory alias like aa=$(pwd)

Then I can cd $aa

alias !="cd .."

Approximative syntax but you get the idea.

!! is the last command in my shell.
- Mmmm i wouldn't type them in a sequence. Rather quickly ! and then enter.
  But I realise, this only makes sense in an azerty layout, where exclamation mark is close to the enter key. It's then very fast to ! Enter and go back levels.
  I agree some solutions below are more elegant

The good thing about Dolphin is you can have the real tree following your navigation. Want to go up a few levels, just click once, directly where you want to go next. None of this up, up, up nonsense. Great for snooping in many different folders in quick succession.

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bourne-Shell-Builtins.html#index-cd

TIL about $CDPATH may have to populate that!

bind '"^H":"cd ..^M"'

Syntax get's twisted here. Second ^ is inserted automatically. As well as the One after the actual bash line.
What it does: Bind Ctrl+Backspace to cd ...