Quick Navigation Shortcuts

Recorded: February 27, 2018

We often move around in the filesystem, changing directories, and typing long lines of commands. We can alias those commands and navigation to give ourselves shortcuts. How? We define them in our .bash_profile file.

For example, instead of typing cd ~ to get back to our home directory, we could define an alias of ~.

Another example is to quickly navigate to your current or favorite project, such as navigating into Beans. On my computer, I have to type:

cd ~/Sites/beansdev/app/public/wp-content/themes/tm-beans/

Woof, that’s a lot to type. Instead, I can quickly navigate by defining a beans alias in my .bash_profile file.

Click here to get the .bash_profile file

	# ===================
	# Aliases
	# ===================
	alias sites="cd ~/Sites/"
	alias beans="cd ~/Sites/beansdev/app/public/wp-content/themes/tm-beans/"
	alias ~="cd ~"
	alias ..="cd .."
	alias ...="cd ../.."
	# =====================
	# Environment Variable
	# =====================
	export WP_TESTS_DIR="/Users/hellofromtonya/Sites/wordpress-develop/tests/phpunit"
	export WP_CORE_DIR="/Users/hellofromtonya/Sites/wordpress-develop/src"

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