Navita is a Bash/Zsh utility for rapid directory traversal, employing fuzzy matching, history tracking, and path validation for efficient file system navigation.
Navita aims to simplify your command-line experience. The powerful Bash tool uses fuzzy search to get you to your destination in seconds.
The software uses fzf, grep, bc, find, less and the Core utilities.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Usual directory change
- Search the history and directly navigate to the highest-ranked matching directory. The current working directory will not be considered in the search.
- Navigate directories the same way you would with the usual built-in cd command.
- Search and traverse child directories – recursively search subdirectories, excluding
.gitand its subdirectories, and navigate to the selected one - Search and traverse parent directories – search directories one level below the parent directories and navigate to the desired one. The current working directory will not be considered in the search.
- Search and traverse history – search your recently visited directories and select the desired one. The current working directory will not be considered in the search.
- View history – view Navita’s history of visited directories. The history will be displayed in the
lesspager, or directly to STDOUT if it fits on a single screen. The output will be sorted based on time, frequency, or by score. - Toggle current and previous directories – switch between your current directory and the previous directory you were in. The previous directory is specific to the current shell.
- Clean-up history – choose to either remove invalid paths from the history or clear the entire history. However, Navita will automatically remove non-existent and non-executable directories.
- Tab completion:
- Supports Tab completion for its options and directories.
- Path exclusion for history:
- Prevent paths that match any regular expression pattern in the $NAVITA_IGNOREFILE file from being added to the history.
- Automatically prevents the .git and $HOME directories from being added to the history by default.
- Frecency directory ranking – ranks directories based on a combination of two factors:
- Frequency (how often a directory is accessed) and,
- Recency (how recently it was accessed).
- Aging – directory paths are forgotten based on a few conditions.
Website: github.com/CodesOfRishi/navita
Support:
Developer: Rishi K.
License: Apache License 2.0
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