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Not strictly an alias, but autojump has been a huge productivity booster for me. Installing it sets up an alias of `j` which guesses the best directory to cd to based on your cd history.

So instead of having to type `cd ~/Projects/someproject` you could just type `j some` and it'll end up there.

https://github.com/wting/autojump

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There's a static version of this built into bash, btw:

    # allow directory variables
    shopt -s cdable_vars
    
    # set a directory variable
    export some=~/Projects/someproject

You can then say `cd some` from anywhere and end up in `~/Projects/someproject`.

Shoutout as well to the various `warp` implementations[1,2,3]. Instead of guessing, you set "warp points" so for your example you can do something like:

>cd ~/Projects/someproject

>wd add . some

From then on you can use `wd some` to warp to that dir.

[1]: https://github.com/kigster/warp-dir

[2]: https://github.com/mfaerevaag/wd

[3]: https://github.com/troyxmccall/wd

Oh that's slick! That will be helpful for a few of my similarly named projects that autojump gets wrong sometimes.

Such a timesaver indeed. The other one would be fzf [1]. Together they get rid of the endless cd'ing and cursing on the default Ctrl-R for being rather stupid and useless :) And there are powershell counterparts as well (ZLocation and PsFzf).

[1] https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

I've been using z and it's great: https://github.com/rupa/z

Second using z. I couldn't figure out how to get autojump working on windows linux subsystem but z worked perfect right out of the box.

Thanks a lot! Something like that was one of the tiny tools I wrote back on DOS using Borland Pascal (I named it xcd). I figured something like this existed but I never really investigated. autojump is even included in Debian/Ubuntu, so it is trivial to use. I guess putting aside an hour per month to actively apply/install these little tools would be really useful.

+1. Very useful extension

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