bd(1)

💖 bd — the manual page, but make it make sense 💖

bd(1) — quickly go back to a specific parent directory in bash. yes bestie, that's the whole vibe. 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

bd — quickly go back to a specific parent directory in bash 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

(okay so the original page literally leaves this section empty, and I am not about to invent options for you — the good stuff is all in DESCRIPTION. slay. 💅)

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

bd lets you jump to a parent directory in bash instead of typing cd ../../.. over and over again like some kind of tragic little gremlin. no cap, the redundancy was giving pain. 😭

You can just type bd with the first few letters of the directory and it will auto complete the directory name for you. so easy. so iconic. ✨

It plays nicely with other commands too — think ls, ln, echo, zip, tar, etc. it's giving main character energy that shares the spotlight. 👑

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -si — you don't have to type the full directory name (meaning "starts with"), just give the starting few characters and let it do the rest. lowkey magical. 🧚
• -. — turns on case-sensitive directory name matching. fr fr, capital letters matter now. 🔥

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🌸 NOTES 🌸

So to avoid having to use . and -si/-. every single time, you can add the line below into your .bashrc file:

echo 'alias bd=". bd -si"' >> ~/.bashrc

And then, do this:

source ~/.bashrc

and boom, you're living the dream. 💖

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🦋 OTHER USES 🦋

Using bd inside backticks (`bd <letter(.)>`) prints out the path without changing the current directory. it's just showing you the address, not moving you in. 🏠

You can take advantage of that by combining `bd <letter(.)>` with other commands such as ls, ln, echo, zip, tar, etc. the collab we deserved. 🫶

Examples:

If you just want to list the contents of a parent directory, without going there, then you can use:
ls `bd p` in the given example, it will list the contents of /home/user/project/

If you want to execute a file somewhere in a parent directory, `bd p`/build.sh will execute
/home/user/project/build.sh while not changing the current directory.

If you reside in /home/user/project/src/org/main/site/utils/file/reader/whatever and want to change to
/home/user/project/test, then try cd `bd p`/test

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

The BD was written by Vigneshwaran Raveendran <vigneshwaran2007@gmail.com>. absolute legend, we love them. 💜

This manual page was written by Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana (phls) <phls@debian.org> for the Debian project (but may be used by others). thank you for your service 🫡🌸

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okay so that's the whole page. now go forth and stop typing ../../../.. like a menace. iykyk 💅

BD 1.03 — May 2022 — and that's the sign-off bestie, version 1.03, dated May 2022, mwah 😘💖