goat

Overview

I used to retrieve carefully-constructed cd commands from my history.

But then, I got a goat.

~ [Jonathan Paugh][jpaugh] on [Google+]

[ ~/Pictures ] $ goat dev ~/Documents/devel # create a link to the dev directory
[ ~/Pictures ] $ ls # see that there is no ~/Pictures/dev directory here
seahorses wallpapers
[ ~/Pictures ] $ cd dev # the goat framework's got you covered!
[ ~/Documents/devel ] $

Oh my! This is a POSIX-compliant shell movement boosting hack for

real ninjas.

#[posix\me\harder][posixmeharder] #[posixly\correct][posixlycorrect]

~ 0mp

Sometimes you jump around your filesystem tree a lot and you end up putting a couple of ugly aliases into your shell's rc file.

I should try it, even if it is dumb!

~ [dse] on [What the Daily WTF?] about goat v1.1.1

With goat you can easily manage your ninja shortcuts - just type goat p ~/Projects to introduce a new link and then cd p to jump to its destination.

Rad! I can do cd .... now instead of performing a horse galloping-like

waltz with ../ being my miserable dance floor. I'm cloning this goat

straight away!

~ YA0mp

BTW, Bash completion is now fully working with goat's shortcuts.

Building

$ make all

Installation

$ make install

Aferwards:

• Make sure that ~/.local/bin is in your PATH:

$ cat <<'EOF' >> ~/.bashrc
  case "$PATH" in
      $HOME/.local/bin) ;;
      *) PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH" ;;
  esac
  EOF

• Make sure that files inside ~/.local/etc/bash_completion.d are actually

$ cat <<'EOF' >> ~/.bash_completion
  if [[ -d ~/.bash_completion.d ]]
  then
      for f in ~/.local/etc/bash_completion.d/*
      do
          [[ -f $f ]] && source "$f"
      done
  fi
  EOF

Usage overview

Create a shortcut named “f” to ~/Documents/dev/freebsd (no need to use
the link command explicitly here):
$ goat f ~/Documents/dev/freebsd
Follow a link to change a directory with cd(1):
$ cd f
Take the “f” shortcut and enter its destination subdirectory with just one command:
$ pwd       /home/0mp       $ cd f/ports       $ pwd       /usr/home/0mp/freebsd/ports
Create a shortcut named “p” to the current directory:
$ goat p .
Go up the filesystem tree with ... (same as the standard “cd ../../”):
$ cd ...
List all your links:
$ goat list       dots    ->      /usr/home/0mp/.dotfiles       down    ->      /usr/home/0mp/Downloads       f       ->      /usr/home/0mp/freebsd       p       ->      /usr/home/0mp/freebsd/ports       pa      ->      /usr/home/0mp/freebsd/patches       src     ->      /usr/home/0mp/freebsd/svn/src       svn     ->      /usr/home/0mp/freebsd/svn
Delete a link (or more):
$ goat delete f p
Delete all the links which point to directories with the given prefix:
$ goat deleteprefix "$HOME/Documents"

License

Licensed under 2-Clause BSD license. Copyright © 2016-2021 Mateusz Piotrowski

[posixmeharder]: http://wiki.wlug.org.nz/POSIXMEHARDER [posixlycorrect]: http://wiki.wlug.org.nz/POSIXLYCORRECT [dse]: https://what.thedailywtf.com/user/dse [What the Daily WTF?]: https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/16122/quick-links-thread/2121 [Google+]: https://plus.google.com/113949504369826627206/posts/bqSfYTrQxLN [jpaugh]: https://github.com/jpaugh