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1. GNOMES · 1789587954 · focus · HN ↗

   Simple trick I use almost daily for navigating backwards to an exact directory:

   <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;GNOMES&#x2F;6bf65926648e260d8023aebb9ede9573" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;GNOMES&#x2F;6bf65926648e260d8023aebb9ede9...

   I use this often instead of chaining together multiple &#x27;..&#x2F;..&#x27;.

   Also nice for when I use Zoxide to CD into a deep nested directory. I quickly found out unless you manually CD each hop, the different parent directories aren&#x27;t added to your Zoxide DB. (I have come across snippits to recursively CD into all directories in a path to &quot;prepopulate&quot; Zoxide).

   I made this to jump directly from say `&#x2F;foo&#x2F;bar&#x2F;batz&#x2F;abc&#x2F;123` to `&#x2F;foo&#x2F;bar&#x2F;batz`.

   1. RhysU · 1789600234 · focus · HN ↗

      Abbreviate moving up in the directory hierarchy:

        alias ..="cd .."
        alias ...="cd ../.."
        alias ....="cd ../../.."
      

      Just keep typing period and hitting enter until you get where you want according to your prompt. I haven&#x27;t found much use for more than four periods. One period would be well-defined but useless.

      1. segfaltnh · 1789644503 · focus · HN ↗

         I have a shell function called &quot;up&quot; that finds a project root and jumps back to it (e.g. a dir containing something like .git)

         Now I have these to complement - thanks!

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