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msg on Feb 18, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: J: an alternative to cd that learns where you spen...

With J I have to visit directories to add them to my index. This ramp-up is annoying.

With CDPATH, I index it all at the beginning. If I find a new major head in my directory tree, I just add it.

doki_pen on Feb 18, 2009 [–]

It would be nice if it could look through .bash_history when it's first run, or something.

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