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The file bookmarks.sh provides a powerful bookmark management system for the Bash version 4.0+. The Midnight Commander directory hotlist can also be used as a second list of independent bookmarks.
Add the following line to ~/.bashrc and start a new shell:
source <PATH_TO_FILE>/bookmarks.sh
The automatically generated default bookmark file is ~/.bookmarks.data.
The following commands are available as shell commands (if there are no conflicts with previously defined commands with the same name):
b [bookmark [dir]] : bookmark a directory
<no option> bookmark the current directory
bookmark use bookmark for current directory
bookmark dir use bookmark for given directory
bl [-d][-t][regex] : show the bookmark list (tab compl.)
-d dictionary order
-t show time stamps
regex list bookmarks matching regex
bm bookmark : resolve a bookmark (tab compl.)
g [bookmark] : go to a bookmark or named directory (tab compl.)
<no option> go to the home directory
bookmark go to the bookmarked directory
p [bookmark] : push bookmark / directory onto dir stack (tab compl.)
bookmark pushd bookmarked directory
r [bookmark|regex] : remove a saved bookmark(s) (tab compl.)
bookmark remove bookmark
regex remove bookmarks matching regex
gh [bookmark] : go to a Midnight Commander hotlist entry (tab compl.)
use ssh for a Shell filesystem link
<no option> go to the home directory
bookmark go to the bookmarked directory
hl [-d][regex] : Midnight Commander directory hotlist (tab compl.)
-d dictionary order
regex list bookmarks matching regex
bookmarks [-h] : display help message
bookmarks -b bmfile : use bookmark file bmfile
bookmarks -i : import Midnight Commander hotlist
bookmarks -r [bash|mc] : reread Bash/Midnight Commander bookmark file
bookmarks -v : display the version of this script
bookmarks -e [bookmark] : export a shell variable from every bookmark or
export a shell variable from given bookmark
The commands bl, r, and hl can take a regular expression to specify a pattern.
The regular expression flavor used is described in the manual regex(7). Keep in
mind that command line parameters will be subjected to parameter expansion. In
doubt the regex has to be quoted. The regex supplied will be evaluated between
the two anchors ^ and $ (beginning of the line/end of the line). A few
examples for the r command:
r test2 # remove bookmark 'test2'
r "a.*" # all bookmarks starting with 'a'
r ".*[0-9]$" # all bookmarks ending with a digit
r ... # all bookmarks with length 3
r ".*a.*" # all bookmarks with one or more 'a' in its name
r ".*x{2,}.*" # all bookmarks with 2 or more consecutive letters 'x'
The command
bookmark -e
exports a shell variable from every existing and new bookmark. Add this line
to ~/.bashrc to use this feature permanently. For the bookmark
vm '/home/vmware.shared-folders'
the variable vm will be exported. An already existing variable will not be
overwritten. The variable can be used with shell commands, e.g.
diff ./file $vm/file
To export only one variable use e.g.
bookmark -e vm
To occasionally resolve a bookmark without exporting a variable use bm, e.g. in
a diff command:
diff ./file $(bm vm)/file
bm runs as a shell function.
README.md this file
bookmarks.sh the bookmarking script with initializations
This work was inspired by bashDirB by Ira Chayut (http://www.dirb.info/bashDirB).
Dr. Fritz Mehner (fgm), mehner.fritz@web.de