How to Bookmark commands in Terminal

Always we hate to type or search or copy and paste most often used commands in the terminal.

I found a great tool to ease the navigation in the terminal, called Apparix. It lets you bookmark a folder so that you easily can navigate to it just by typing

to nameofbookmark

To install apparix in Ubuntu, type

sudo apt-get install apparix

To install in Mac, type

brew install -v apparix or Run this Script

in a terminal window.

After installation, you need to set up the aliases bm for bookmarking and to for going to a bookmark by adding a few functions to your .bashrc file in your home folder (if you dont have this file, you can create it yourself).

Youll find the functions you need to add by issuing the command

apparix shell-examples

in a terminal window. Copy everything below Bash-style functions except the CSH-style aliases. Paste this into your .bashrc file.

Open up a new terminal, cd to your directory of choice and type

bm mybookmark

to bookmark the folder. Afterward, you can go to any folder and type

to mybookmark

to go to your bookmark.

This tool is, of course, available for other Linux distributions too.

Reference: https://micans.org/apparix/