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Andrew Mason • Edited

github.com/rupa/z

It’s zsh plugin to help you navigate your files via the command line by learning the ways you want to access a certain folder and providing that shortcut.

For instance, when I want to go to CodeFund’s codebase on my computer, I type z code in my command line and cd’s me right to the project, which the real path is ~/work/gitcoin/code_fund_ads (I think, I’ve accessed it with z since day 1).

I have a GitHub action for rubocop and a demo app for trying to recreate bugs people report for it which I can get to with z rubocop action and z rubocop playground respectively.

It’s an amazing tool and I can’t imagine not having it at this point. Let me know if I can say more! 😁

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Andrew Mason

It’s also perfect for me because I can never remember where anything is. Whether it’s a folder on my computer or my car keys, I can lose anything. Z helps me not lose things on my computer. As for my car keys though... 😬

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Ido Shamun

Thanks for sharing! I'll give it a go