Question

My development machine is a linux host.

I have a complicated directory structure (like most of you, I assume), and I would like to move easily from one directory to the other, from within the shell. Specifically, welcomed features would be:

• autocompletion (something like ido-mode in emacs)
• regular expression directory / file matching
• suggestion of recently visited directories (stack).
• Possibilty to push/pop to the stack, get a listing of recently visited directories, …
• good integration of those features
• console based

Do you know any tool which can satisfy those requirements?

Answer 1

Umm, any interactive shell(say, bash) already has nearly all of these features:

• Press Tab once to auto-complete, and twice to show a list of possible completions.
• find | grep reg.exp can be used for file matching, or find -exec grep reg.exp -H '{}' ';' to match contents
• You can switch to the previous directory with cd -
• pushd and popd can be used to push and pop directories