How to do work interactively

Problem

• Press Tab again and agin when cd to some very deep directories or vim some files in a deep directories.
• Input a very long file name again and again to try different commands: unzip, tar , file, vim…

Installation

Install percol

Download the package and extract it. Copy the sub-directory “percol/” to “~/bin”. Rename “percol” in sub-directory “bin” to “percol.py” and copy it to “~/bin”.

unzip percol-master.zip
cd percol-master
mkdir ~/bin
cp percol ~/bin -a
cp bin/percol ~/bin/percol.py 

Verify installation:

ps ax | percol.py

Intall this script

Copy this script (rc.sh) to “~/” and source it from “~/.bashrc”.

cp rc.sh ~/
echo . ~/rc.sh >> ~/.bashrc 

Usage

cdd

Cd to a very deep directory.

ff

Find a file by locate, and perform some actions to it.

lss

Find a file by find in current directory and sub directoris, and perform some actions to it.

pss

Find a process by ps and kill it.

r

Run a command in my favorite command list.

h

Run a command in history.

Acknowledge

This script is inspired by How to do the file navigation efficiently