Cd Last Shell

Why?

I was upset when a needed multiple terminal for a project to change directory into the one I was working in. This save me a lot of time.

And it's very pleasant for a i3 user.

This is a little easy script which opens the new bash terminal in the last visited directory by cdat, or directly by calling cdlast

You can also check pushd and popd if you don't know them, thus my command has a different logic.

Warning!

• This script creates the cdat command. It will write to a file in your home directory, ~/.bash_last_shell_path by default.

• It creates also the cdlast command, which change directory the path stored in the file.

Requirement

• bash should be compatible with other shell languages with little fixes
• .bash_last_shell_path file in your ~ directory

Install

• Copy the in_bash_rc.sh script into your .bashrc
  • Other files are just for code splitting
• Reload your bashrc

source ~/.bashrc

or

. ~/.bashrc

Specs

• cdat

  • Takes one argument $1 which is an relative or absolute path

• cdlast

  • Takes one or no argument, the optional argument is a string which will be displayed with the path the command went to.
  • Display format: "$1 [.bash_last_shell_path]"

Author

SidoShiro - github

Contributors

Smlep - https://github.com/Smlep

Edits

• Thu, September 27, 2018 Splitting the two function in two files, a new file in_bash_rc.sh is the file to copy in the bashrc.

• Sat, June 30, 2018 At first the function was named cd in order to override the original cd command, but it was not good, as it involve file writing, it could also slow down or make undefined effects when cd is called in some bash scripts or some particular use.

• Wed, July 4, 2018 Using a echo of $PWD to store the absolute path to the directory, and not the relative path like before. That was a fatal bug!