bookmark

bookmark

A cross-platform command line bookmarking tool

With bookmark you can type bm myProject to move to a bookmarked directory instead of cd /really/long/path/to/myProject.

What?

I ain't tryin' to waste my time typing out long paths all day. If you have used python's virtualenvwrapper before, you might miss how the workon command can switch directories for you. Bookmark aims to be like that, but for any directory.

Much better right?

Install

Bookmark requires Node.js

$ npm install -g bookmark

then, for bash / cygwin:

$ bm --add-alias

Bookmark relies on .sh/.bat scripts to do its magic. Bookmark feeds those scripts the path you want to cd to. For a script's cd command to actually change the directory in your current shell you need to 'source' that script.

Typing $ source bm <bookmark> every time is lame. You can avoid typing source each time by manually adding an alias (bm="source bm") to your .bash_aliases or .bashrc, or you can let bookmark try to add it for you with $ bm --add-alias.

Once you've done that, you need to $ source .bash_aliases (or .bashrc, wherever the alias is) for the changes to take effect in your current shell.

How to use

Usage: bm [options] [command]

Commands:

  add <bookmark_name> [bookmark_path]
  update <bookmark_name> [bookmark_path]
  remove <bookmark_name>
  list [bookmark_name]
  color <on/off>
  <bookmark_name>

Options:

  -h, --help  output usage information
  -v  output the version number

Commands can also be truncated for less typing:

• add / a
• update / up / u
• remove / rm / r
• list / ls / l

Using old busted cmd.exe and ANSI escape codes are coming out funky like: \033[K \033[%dd?
No problem, run bm color off.

As a side note, if you don't have a nice Windows terminal set up, check out one of these:

• cmder (built on ConEmu)
• Babun

If you use Babun, just be aware that bookmark doesn't work with zsh yet.

Examples

# Add a bookmark called myProject at current location:
$ bm add myProject

  Bookmark added:
  myProject C:\User\Person\Projects\myProjectStuff

# Add a bookmark called myProject at given path:
$ bm add myProject \User\Person\Projects\myProjectStuff

  Bookmark added:
  myProject C:\User\Person\Projects\myProjectStuff

# cd to your bookmark's directory
$ bm myProject

Is there a better way to do this?

Probably, but I don't know what it is. I've seen some complex shell scripts floating around the web, but they didn't seem to do exactly what I wanted and I couldn't find any solutions for Windows machines.

It might have been better to exclude Node and only use .sh/.bat scripts, but my .sh/.bat-scripting-fu isn't up to that challenge.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 Sterling DeMille <[e-mail]>

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