Here’s a quick hack to quickly switch directory in terminal. It comes in handy when I am simultaneously working on multiple projects.
Before
$ cd ~/arena/iw/projects/teachmore/TeachMoreWeb
$ .
$ . Do something awesome for the first project!
$ .
$ cd ~/arena/eec/projects/eecglobal/EecGlobalWeb
$ .
$ . Do something awesome for the second project!
$ .
$ cd ~/arena/iw/projects/teachmore/TeachMoreAndroidAfter
$ gototmw
$ .
$ . Do something awesome for the first project!
$ .
$ gotoeecw
$ .
$ . Do something awesome for the second project!
$ .
$ gototmaHow to do this?
We use Aliases to do this. We are basically creating shortcuts for above commands using Aliases. It saves us a lot of keystrokes.# Put below lines in ~/.bash_profile (For Mac) or ~/.bashrc (For Ubuntu)
alias gototmw="cd ~/arena/iw/projects/teachmore/TeachMoreWeb"
alias gotoeecw="cd ~/arena/eec/projects/eecglobal/EecGlobalWeb"
alias gototma="cd ~/arena/iw/projects/teachmore/TeachMoreAndroid"