cli-bookmarks: CLI Filesystem Directory Bookmarks

cli-bookmarks is yet another tool to bookmark filesystem locations and access them in a fast and easy way.

Important

This project has a new home here: https://github.com/DavidGamba/dgtools/tree/master/cli-bookmarks

Features:

• Easy bash completion setup. The completions are generated by the tool in a high level language, not in bash.

• Both termbox based UI and CLI only modes.

• Bookmarks are stored on an easy to edit toml file.

SYNOPSIS

# Show the GUI
cb

# Use a bookmark
cb bookmark_alias

# Use a bookmark and navigate its subdirectories
cb bookmark_alias <tab>

# Use a bookmark with an alternate config file
cb --file /abs/path/to/alternate/config/file bookmark_alias

Bookmarks are stored by default in the ~/.cli-bookmarks.toml file.

Setup

Add the following to your bash setup:

function cb() {
  local out=""
  local exit_value=1
  if [[ $# -eq 0 ]]; then
    out=`cli-bookmarks`
    exit_value=$?
  else
    out=`cli-bookmarks "$*"`
    exit_value=$?
  fi
  if [[ $exit_value == 0 ]]; then
    cd "$out"
  else
    echo "$out"
  fi
}

function _cliBookmarks() {
  COMPREPLY=(`cli-bookmarks --completion-current ${2} --completion-previous ${3}`)
  return 0
}
complete -o filenames -o nospace -F _cliBookmarks cb

The script above can be obtained from: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DavidGamba/cli-bookmarks/master/cli-bookmarks.bash

Install

Using GOLANG:

go install github.com/DavidGamba/cli-bookmarks

Or grab one of the generated artifacts from the Releases page.

Configuration file

Bookmarks are stored by default in the ~/.cli-bookmarks.toml file. The file syntax is described below:

[bookmarks] # (1)
alias = "/full/path/to/dir" (2)

1. The [bookmarks] table (also known as hash table or dictionary) is where all the aliases are placed.

2. The key/value alias combination. The value is a string (must be surrounded in quotes) with the full path of a directory.

The precedence to determine the configuration file is as follows:

1. The --file /abs/path/to/conf/file command line flag.

2. The build variable ConfigFilePath. Build using:

   go build -ldflags="-X main.ConfigFilePath=/abs/path/to/conf/file"

3. The default configuration file path: $HOME/.cli-bookmarks.toml

ROADMAP

• Completion results don’t need to include the alias. In bash:

  cd ~/code <tab>
  games/
  tools/
  tutorials/

  vs:

  cb alias <tab>
  alias/games/
  alias/tools/
  alias/tutorials/

• Add add command to add CWD to the bookmarks file.

• Sort aliases in GUI.

• Add another section for common files and pass that to an EDITOR.

• If there are too many bookmarks, the GUI will clip them and only show the ones it can display.

• Support mouse double click in GUI to select entry.

• Support tab in GUI.

SOURCE CODE

github: https://github.com/DavidGamba/cli-bookmarks

LICENSE

This file is part of cli-bookmarks.

Copyright © 2018 David Gamba Rios

This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.