When you use the commandline a lot like I do, you sometimes wonder about the amount of typing involved. Even if you use tabs like a maniac, you’ll probably end up typing certain paths a gazillions times a day. Not anymore…

I stumbled upon a great little time saver called bm (bookmark). It allows you to bookmark (as if you’re in a web browser) certain paths and create a cdbm command which allows you to quickly change directory to the bookmarked path.

1) To create a bookmark type:

bm -a /path/you/want/to/bookmark name_of_your_bookmark


2) To use a bookmark type:

cdbm name_of_your_bookmark


I highly recommend this nifty little timesaver. You only have to compile it (it’s really easy, just follow the two instructions in the README.txt) and I can confirm it works without a hitch on Ubuntu 8.04, but my guess is that it would probably could work on other POSIX systems as well (like OS X).

Thanks to Bart from Onderstekop.nl for creating it!

UPDATE
Download the bm_1.0-1_i386 package I created for Ubuntu. Tested on Ubuntu (9.04) Jaunty on 32-bit architecture and it works for me. Your mileage may vary!

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