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NAME

autojump - a faster way to navigate your filesystem

SYNOPSIS

Load autojump: 
. /usr/share/autojump/autojump.sh
Jump to a previously visited directory that contains 'foo': 
j foo
Jump to a previously visited subdirectory of the current directory: 
jc bar
Show database entries and their respective key weights: 
j --stat

DESCRIPTION

autojump is a faster way to navigate your filesystem. It works by maintaining a database of the directories you use the most from the command line. Directories must be visited first before they can be jumped to.

OPTIONS

Options must be passed to 'autojump' and not the 'j' wrapper function. 
-i, --increase      manually increase current directory weight


-d, --decrease      manually decrease current directory weight


--purge             deletes database entries that no longer exist on system


-s, --stat          show general stats and top 100 database entries


--version           show version information and exit

ADVANCED USAGE

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Using Multiple Arguments
Let's assume the following database: 
30   /home/user/mail/inbox
10   /home/user/work/inbox
j in would jump into /home/user/mail/inbox as the higher weighted entry. However you can pass multiple arguments to autojump to prefer a different entry. In the above example, j w in would then jump you into /home/user/work/inbox.
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Jump To A Child Directory.
Sometimes it's convenient to jump to a child directory (sub-directory of current directory) rather than typing out the full name. 
jc images
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Open File Manager To Directories (instead of jumping)
Instead of jumping to a directory, you can open a file explorer window (Mac Finder, Windows Explorer, GNOME Nautilus, etc) to the directory instead. 
jo music
Opening a file manager to a child directory is also supported. 
jco images

ADDITIONAL CONFIGURATION

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Enable ZSH Tab Completion
ZSH tab completion requires the compinit module to be loaded. Please add the following line to your ~/.zshrc after loading autojump: 
autoload -U compinit && compinit
For security compinit checks completion system if files will be owned by root or the current user. This check can be ignored by using the -u flag: 
autoload -U compinit && compinit -u
Tab completion requires two tabs before autojump will display the completion menu. However if setopt nolistambiguous is enabled, then only one tab is required.
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Always Ignore Case
Default behavior is to prioritize exact matches over all else. For example, j foo will prefer /foobar over /FooBar even if the latter has a higher weight. To change this behavior and ignore case, add the following environmental variable in your ~/.bashrc: 
export AUTOJUMP_IGNORE_CASE=1
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Prefer Symbolic Links
Default behavior is to evaluate symbolic links into full paths as to reduce duplicate entries in the database. However, some users prefer a shorter working directory path in their shell prompt. To switch behavior to prefer symbolic links, add the following environmental variable in your ~/.bashrc: 
export AUTOJUMP_KEEP_SYMLINKS=1
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Autocomplete Additional Commands (Bash only)
Autojump can be used to autocomplete other commands (e.g. cp or vim). To use this feature, add the following environmental variable in your ~/.bashrc: 
export AUTOJUMP_AUTOCOMPLETE_CMDS='cp vim'
Changes require reloading autojump to take into effect.

KNOWN ISSUES

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For bash users, autojump keeps track of directories as a pre-command hook by modifying $PROMPT_COMMAND. If you overwrite $PROMPT_COMMAND in ~/.bashrc you can cause problems. Don't do this:
export PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a"
Do this: 
export PROMPT_COMMAND="${PROMPT_COMMAND:+$PROMPT_COMMAND ;} history -a"
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The jump function j does not support directories that begin with -. If you want to jump a directory called --music, try using j music instead of j   --music.

FILES

If installed locally, autojump is self-contained in ~/.autojump/.
The database is stored in $XDG_DATA_HOME/autojump/autojump.txt.

REPORTING BUGS

For any usage related issues or feature requests please visit:
https://github.com/joelthelion/autojump/issues

THANKS

Special thanks goes out to: Pierre Gueth, Simon Marache-Francisco, Daniel Jackoway, and many others.

AUTHORS

autojump was originally written by Joël Schaerer, and currently maintained by William Ting. Copyright © 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
10 April 2012 release-v20