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NAME
autojump – a faster way to navigate your filesystem

*SYNOPSIS

j* dirspec *jstat

DESCRIPTION*

autojump is a faster way to navigate your filesystem. It works by maintaining a database of the directories you use the
most from the command line. The jstat command shows you the current contents of the database. You need to work a little
bit before the database becomes useable. Once your database is reasonably complete, you can “jump” to a directory by
typing:

j dirspec

where dirspec is a few characters of the directory you want to jump to. It will jump to the most used directory whose
name matches the pattern given in dirspec.

*EXAMPLES

j* mp3

could jump to /home/gwb/my mp3 collection, if that is the directory in which you keep your mp3s.

jstat

will print out something in the lines of:

… 54.5: /home/shared/musique 60.0: /home/joel/workspace/coolstuff/glandu 83.0: /home/joel/workspace/abs_user/autojump 96.9: /home/joel/workspace/autojump 141.8: /home/joel/workspace/vv 161.7: /home/joel Total key weight: 1077

The “key weight” reflects the amount of time you spend in a directory.

BUGS

No known bugs at this time.

AUTHOR

Joel Schaerer (joel.schaerer (at) laposte.net)

HISTORY

2009 – First version.