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Comment by Midasx | Hacker News Reader

It isn't super clear in the article, but I now use bfs & fzf for replacing cd.

https://github.com/bag-man/dotfiles/blob/master/bashrc#L73

Lets you change directory with alt+c, although I have tweaked it so you always search from your root folder. Which isn't for everyone. Otherwise fzf alt+c doesn't let you go back up directories which gets frustrating.

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Hey, bfs author here, glad you've found it useful! You can do that whole thing in one command with

    bfs ~ -nohidden -type d -printf '~/%P\n'

I've just tried this and in my case it leads to "cd \~[...]" which obviously does not work.

That's strange. Maybe just change it to:

    export FZF_ALT_C_COMMAND="bfs -type d -nohidden"

(and install bfs of course)

It won't let you go back up the tree, but if you are clever you can use `cd -` to jump back to your previous location.

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