Bookmark directories in #Bash.

README.markdown

Bookmark directories in Bash.

Install

Source bmark.sh in your ~/.bashrc. (Enableing cdable_vars in Bash makes this script better.)

Usage

Bookmark current directories:

$ bmark name

Recommended name format: [-A-Za-z0-9_]+. Avoid special characters.

Use basename as the default bookmark name:

$ bmark

List all bookmarks:

$ bmarks

Go to one bookmark:

$ cd $name

If you've shopt -s cdable_vars in ~/.bashrc, you can omit the $ symbol:

$ cd name 
$ pushd name

Pushd and popd also work, since bookmarks are simple variables.

Organize the bookmark:

 $ editor ~/.config/bmark/rc

Similar projects

• Armando Rivera's minimalistic version.
• bashmarks (more powerful and nice UI)

AFAIK, my implementation (this script) is the only one which

• integrates with bash builtin cd, pushd, popd, etc, instead of a seperate goto command
• avoids duplicated bookmarks
• uses basename as the default bookmark name

Repo

https://gist.github.com/925202

bmark.sh

# Bookmark directories in Bash.
# by Jakukyo Friel <weakish@gmail.com> under GPL v2
# repo: https://gist.github.com/925202




# bookmark storage
bmarkdb=$HOME/dotfiles/bmark/rc
mkdir -p $HOME/dotfiles/bmark
touch $bmarkdb
source $bmarkdb 


bmark () {
  # check if already bookmarked
  if grep -m1 $PWD\" $bmarkdb;  then
    echo 'Already bookmarked!'
  else # use basename as the default bookmark name
    if [ -z $1 ]; then
      bmarkname=`basename $PWD`
    else
      bmarkname=$1
    fi
    # check if bookmark name is already used
    if grep -m1 -E "$bmarkname=" $bmarkdb; then
      echo 'Bookmark name already used! Choose a different one.'
    else # add bookmark 
      echo "$bmarkname=\"$PWD\"" >> $bmarkdb
      source $bmarkdb
    fi
  fi
}

bmarks () {
  cat $bmarkdb
}