shmarks - a fast, easy, robust and convenient way of handling bookmarks of directories

Installation

1. Install binary

   > cargo +nightly install shmarks --locked
   

2. Add code in your .zshrc (should work with little changes in other shells as well)

   Adding this into your directory of plugins might be a more clean option (include in .zshrc with source plugins_dir/shmarks.zsh)

   export SHMARKS_LIST_PATH="$HOME/.local/share/shmarks.toml" # place where your shell bookmarks (shmarks) stored
   export SHMARKS_AUTO_SORT="d" # sort on adding new alias: a = by aliases, d = by directories, otherwise no sorting
   export SHMARKS_DEFAULT_ALIAS="dd" # default alias to jump into if no alias name was provided
   
   # Jump by alias
   f() {
       if [[ $# -eq 0 ]]; then
           # jump to default dir if no arguments provided
           cd "$(shmarks -a "$SHMARKS_DEFAULT_ALIAS")"
       else
           cd "$(shmarks -a "$@")"
       fi
   }
   
   # Might be interesting to you
   
   alias s='shmarks' # shortcut for 'shmarks' binary
   alias p='shmarks ls -d' # colored list print with directories
   alias se="$EDITOR "$SHMARKS_LIST_PATH"" # edit shmarks
   alias pf='shmarks ls -d | rg'  # find in print of directories
   
   # fzf jumper
   sf() {
       local choice="$(shmarks ls -dp | fzf)"
   
       if [ -n "$choice" ]; then
           local dir="$(echo "$choice" | awk '{print $2}')"
           cd "$dir"
       fi
   }
   
   # Autocompletion of alias
   _shmarks_compzsh() {
       reply=($(shmarks ls))
   }
   compctl -K _shmarks_compzsh f # change 'f' to alias set for jumping (6th line)
   

Usage

> shmarks
Directory bookmarks for the shell.

Usage: shmarks [OPTIONS]
       shmarks <COMMAND>

Commands:
  new   Create new mark. Creates mark for current directory by default [aliases: n]
  rm    Remove mark. Removes mark of current dir if no args provided [aliases: r]
  ls    List all marks [aliases: l]
  sort  Sort shmarks file [aliases: s]
  help  Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options:
  -a, --alias <ALIAS>  Alias of the directory to jump into
  -h, --help           Print help
  -V, --version        Print version

Jump by alias 'default' into default dir

> f

Jump by alias

> f myalias

Edit marks file in $EDITOR

> se

Save current dir (pwd) to shmarks and sort shmarks file if $SHMARKS_AUTO_SORT was set

> shmarks new myalias

> s n myalias

Save specified dir to shmarks

> shmarks new myalias /my/dir

Remove current dir from shmarks

> shmarks rm

Remove alias specified by its directory path

> shmarks rm -d /my/dir

Remove alias specified by its name

> shmarks rm -a myalias

List all saved marks like plain GNU "ls" utility

> shmarks ls 

List all saved marks like "/bin/ls -l" in columns with dirs showed, colored

> shmarks ls -d

> p

Sort shmarks by directories (alphabetical order)

> shmarks sort -d

Note

• By default, shmarks.toml located in $XDG_DATA_HOME or $HOME/.local/share. You could override it with $SHMARKS_LIST_PATH
• It requires nightly Rust only because of the "std::path::absolute" to resolve relative paths that might not exist

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