So after @danacus commented here https://devrant.com/rants/1860006/... about a command called "tp" to teleport from one directory to another, I felt the urge to write myself such tool. This was one of my first pure bash projects and I'm happy to announce that it finally is finished! I really hate self-promotion but since I use this tool in every single bash session and find it very convenient, I decided to share it with y'all. I'd be super glad if you give me your opinion about it!

git clone https://github.com/bitteruhe/tp

@ruhe That's really cool! I might try it out. (or maybe I'll stick with my own zsh config for now)

@Danacus do as you like! Just know that I'm thankful for that idea you gave me a month ago

(I’m new to bash) what’s the diff between cd and tp?

@baeovvulf cd changes the directory. You can use it with absolute and with relative paths.
Say you are currently in the dir ~/Documents/oof/rab and want to switch to ~/Desktop/foo/bar. What you can do is to call cd like this:

cd ../../../Desktop/foo/bar

Or like this:

cd ~/Desktop/foo/bar

I created tp because I think that this is too much work to simply switch to the bar-folder. Therefore, my tool allows you to store a short name, called portal, with the corresponding directory.
In this case, I would create a portal called 'bar' that points to the directory ~/Desktop/foo/bar. This allows me to simply call

tp bar

which then teleports me directly to this folder from wherever I currently am located. It comes in handy when you need to switch to a certain folder on a regular basis

@baeovvulf tp is a command we invented. You can use it to quickly cd to a directory that you often use, without having to write the full path.

Edit: what ruhe just said while I was typing

How does it work out what the correct path would be if I have several /bar folders under /foo/bar /cup/bar /trog/bar etc?

Nevermind I see its git was linked ...

@ruhe @Danacus ah! Cool! I’m trying to use bash as much as possible to learn it... I would totally use this!

Sooo
$bar=~/path/bar
cd $bar

?

@mundo03 Good point actually!

@mundo03 Good point indeed!
Still, i prefer
$ tp --add bar ~/path/bar
$ tp bar

@ruhe I open as many terminal tabs as I need, I normally stay in 2 or 3
But I do get the point of tp which reminds me of toilet papet

tp sounds like fasd... No?

Or alias src=~/projects/src

just discovered the cd - command

so.
cd foo
cd bar
cd - // changes to foo
cd - // changes to bar
cd - // changes to foo again, ad so on.

this would be enough for me ... if I don't open a tab for every directory I need anyway.

would it be enough for you?

@benj sounds like toilette paper