ceedee

ceedee

A tool for quickly jumping to directories, heavily influenced by z.

Installation

To install the tool using Go like so:

$ go get github.com/walkert/ceedee

Details

Server mode

ceedee operates as both a server and a client. When in server mode, it will perform a scan of the suppled root directory and create a map of directory names to their absolute paths ('Downloads' -> '/home/user/Downloads'). After the initial scan, it will re-scan every hour by default. Once the root scan is complete, it will then read the supplied shell history file for any cd /some/absolute/path entries and add them to the map. It will then monitor the history file using watcher and continue to update the map as new cd entries are discovered. Directories discovered from the history file will be given a higher rank than those discovered from the root directory walk. Directories which have no corresponding history entries will be ranked by their depth relative to root.

Client mode

When in client mode, ceedee takes a directory name as a single argument. If there is an exact match, it will print the highest ranked absolute path that matches. If it's a partial match, it will print a list of the available directory names.

Using ceedee for directory navigation

The zsh folder contains two files: c.sh and _c. By sourcing c.sh in your .zshrc file you will get a new shell function called c which when given a directory argument will pass it to ceedee and change to the output directory. If you add _c to your $FPATH, you will get tab-completion for the c function which will allow you to complete partial entries returned from ceedee.

Getting Started

Starting a server

Start the server with all defaults and set the root directory to $HOME with verbose logging.

$ ceedee --server --root ~ --verbose