Download z.sh from https://github.com/rupa/z and place it in your home folder. Edit .bashrc and add . ~/path to z.sh to it. After next logon, cd around for a bit. You should now have a new file in your home folder .z, and you can now move around using the z command.
Note: You have to enter the folder the old way first
# Copyright (c) 2009 rupa deadwyler. Licensed under the WTFPL license, Version 2 # maintains a jump-list of the directories you actually use # # INSTALL: # * put something like this in your .bashrc/.zshrc: # . /path/to/z.sh # * cd around for a while to build up the db # * PROFIT!! # * optionally: # set $_Z_CMD in .bashrc/.zshrc to change the command (default z). # set $_Z_DATA in .bashrc/.zshrc to change the datafile (default ~/.z). # set $_Z_NO_RESOLVE_SYMLINKS to prevent symlink resolution. # set $_Z_NO_PROMPT_COMMAND if you're handling PROMPT_COMMAND yourself. # set $_Z_EXCLUDE_DIRS to an array of directories to exclude. # set $_Z_OWNER to your username if you want use z while sudo with $HOME kept # # USE: # * z foo # cd to most frecent dir matching foo # * z foo bar # cd to most frecent dir matching foo and bar # * z -r foo # cd to highest ranked dir matching foo # * z -t foo # cd to most recently accessed dir matching foo # * z -l foo # list matches instead of cd # * z -e foo # echo the best match, don't cd # * z -c foo # restrict matches to subdirs of $PWD [ -d "${_Z_DATA:-$HOME/.z}" ] && { echo "ERROR: z.sh's datafile (${_Z_DATA:-$HOME/.z}) is a directory." } _z() { local datafile="${_Z_DATA:-$HOME/.z}" # if symlink, dereference [ -h "$datafile" ] && datafile=$(readlink "$datafile") # bail if we don't own ~/.z and $_Z_OWNER not set [ -z "$_Z_OWNER" -a -f "$datafile" -a ! -O "$datafile" ] && return _z_dirs () { local line while read line; do # only count directories [ -d "${line%%\|*}" ] && echo "$line" done < "$datafile" return 0 } # add entries if [ "$1" = "--add" ]; then shift # $HOME isn't worth matching [ "$*" = "$HOME" ] && return # don't track excluded directory trees local exclude for exclude in "${_Z_EXCLUDE_DIRS[@]}"; do case "$*" in "$exclude*") return;; esac done # maintain the data file local tempfile="$datafile.$RANDOM" _z_dirs | awk -v path="$*" -v now="$(date +%s)" -F"|" ' BEGIN { rank[path] = 1 time[path] = now } $2 >= 1 { # drop ranks below 1 if( $1 == path ) { rank[$1] = $2 + 1 time[$1] = now } else { rank[$1] = $2 time[$1] = $3 } count += $2 } END { if( count > 9000 ) { # aging for( x in rank ) print x "|" 0.99*rank[x] "|" time[x] } else for( x in rank ) print x "|" rank[x] "|" time[x] } ' 2>/dev/null >| "$tempfile" # do our best to avoid clobbering the datafile in a race condition. if [ $? -ne 0 -a -f "$datafile" ]; then env rm -f "$tempfile" else [ "$_Z_OWNER" ] && chown $_Z_OWNER:"$(id -ng $_Z_OWNER)" "$tempfile" env mv -f "$tempfile" "$datafile" || env rm -f "$tempfile" fi # tab completion elif [ "$1" = "--complete" -a -s "$datafile" ]; then _z_dirs | awk -v q="$2" -F"|" ' BEGIN { q = substr(q, 3) if( q == tolower(q) ) imatch = 1 gsub(/ /, ".*", q) } { if( imatch ) { if( tolower($1) ~ q ) print $1 } else if( $1 ~ q ) print $1 } ' 2>/dev/null else # list/go local echo fnd last list opt typ while [ "$1" ]; do case "$1" in --) while [ "$1" ]; do shift; fnd="$fnd${fnd:+ }$1";done;; -*) opt=${1:1}; while [ "$opt" ]; do case ${opt:0:1} in c) fnd="^$PWD $fnd";; e) echo=1;; h) echo "${_Z_CMD:-z} [-cehlrtx] args" >&2; return;; l) list=1;; r) typ="rank";; t) typ="recent";; x) sed -i -e "\:^${PWD}|.*:d" "$datafile";; esac; opt=${opt:1}; done;; *) fnd="$fnd${fnd:+ }$1";; esac; last=$1; [ "$#" -gt 0 ] && shift; done [ "$fnd" -a "$fnd" != "^$PWD " ] || list=1 # if we hit enter on a completion just go there case "$last" in # completions will always start with / /*) [ -z "$list" -a -d "$last" ] && builtin cd "$last" && return;; esac # no file yet [ -f "$datafile" ] || return local cd cd="$( < <( _z_dirs ) awk -v t="$(date +%s)" -v list="$list" -v typ="$typ" -v q="$fnd" -F"|" ' function frecent(rank, time) { # relate frequency and time dx = t - time if( dx < 3600 ) return rank * 4 if( dx < 86400 ) return rank * 2 if( dx < 604800 ) return rank / 2 return rank / 4 } function output(matches, best_match, common) { # list or return the desired directory if( list ) { cmd = "sort -n >&2" for( x in matches ) { if( matches[x] ) { printf "%-10s %s\n", matches[x], x | cmd } } if( common ) { printf "%-10s %s\n", "common:", common > "/dev/stderr" } } else { if( common ) best_match = common print best_match } } function common(matches) { # find the common root of a list of matches, if it exists for( x in matches ) { if( matches[x] && (!short || length(x) < length(short)) ) { short = x } } if( short == "/" ) return for( x in matches ) if( matches[x] && index(x, short) != 1 ) { return } return short } BEGIN { gsub(" ", ".*", q) hi_rank = ihi_rank = -9999999999 } { if( typ == "rank" ) { rank = $2 } else if( typ == "recent" ) { rank = $3 - t } else rank = frecent($2, $3) if( $1 ~ q ) { matches[$1] = rank } else if( tolower($1) ~ tolower(q) ) imatches[$1] = rank if( matches[$1] && matches[$1] > hi_rank ) { best_match = $1 hi_rank = matches[$1] } else if( imatches[$1] && imatches[$1] > ihi_rank ) { ibest_match = $1 ihi_rank = imatches[$1] } } END { # prefer case sensitive if( best_match ) { output(matches, best_match, common(matches)) } else if( ibest_match ) { output(imatches, ibest_match, common(imatches)) } } ')" [ $? -eq 0 ] && [ "$cd" ] && { if [ "$echo" ]; then echo "$cd"; else builtin cd "$cd"; fi } fi } alias ${_Z_CMD:-z}='_z 2>&1' [ "$_Z_NO_RESOLVE_SYMLINKS" ] || _Z_RESOLVE_SYMLINKS="-P" if type compctl >/dev/null 2>&1; then # zsh [ "$_Z_NO_PROMPT_COMMAND" ] || { # populate directory list, avoid clobbering any other precmds. if [ "$_Z_NO_RESOLVE_SYMLINKS" ]; then _z_precmd() { (_z --add "${PWD:a}" &) } else _z_precmd() { (_z --add "${PWD:A}" &) } fi [[ -n "${precmd_functions[(r)_z_precmd]}" ]] || { precmd_functions[$(($#precmd_functions+1))]=_z_precmd } } _z_zsh_tab_completion() { # tab completion local compl read -l compl reply=(${(f)"$(_z --complete "$compl")"}) } compctl -U -K _z_zsh_tab_completion _z elif type complete >/dev/null 2>&1; then # bash # tab completion complete -o filenames -C '_z --complete "$COMP_LINE"' ${_Z_CMD:-z} [ "$_Z_NO_PROMPT_COMMAND" ] || { # populate directory list. avoid clobbering other PROMPT_COMMANDs. grep "_z --add" <<< "$PROMPT_COMMAND" >/dev/null || { PROMPT_COMMAND="$PROMPT_COMMAND"$'\n''(_z --add "$(command pwd '$_Z_RESOLVE_SYMLINKS' 2>/dev/null)" 2>/dev/null &);' } } fi