easydir

Easy, pipe friendly parent directory navigation. A bit like vim-easymotion for your current working directory.

Written in Python and works with both Python 2 and 3.

Inspired by zipline as posted on Reddit.

Usage

$ pwd
/home/vnguyen/projects/misc/easydir
$ easydir
/home/vnguyen/projects/misc/easydir
0    1       2        3    4
$ cd `easydir`
$ pwd
/home/vnguyen/projects/misc/easydir
$ easydir 1
/home
$ easydir 1 | xargs ls
vnguyen
$ cd `easydir 1`
$ pwd
/home

When no arguments are provided the numbered display is written to stderr but the current working directory is written to stdout (as a sane default). When a number argument is provided then the appropriately trimmed path is written to stdout. This facilitates piping to other programs.

Installation

The easiest way to install is probably with pip.

pip install easydir

An alternative way is via the setup.py script.

git clone https://github.com/vietjtnguyen/easydir.git
cd easydir
python setup.py install

Yet another way is to just copy the script into a folder available in your PATH.

git clone https://github.com/vietjtnguyen/easydir.git
cd easydir
cp easydir /usr/local/bin/

Note that you may require elevated privileges (sudo) if you are installing at the system level (i.e. not in a virtual environment).