dir

create a folder and enter into it

Installation | Usage | Annotated source | License

Installation

Both zsh and bash shell are supported.

Just copy and paste the dir function below in your shell profile or (assuming you are using zsh) do something like

mkdir -p ~/.shell
cd ~/.shell
git clone https://github.com/fibo/dir.git
echo "source ~/.shell/dir/fun.sh" >> ~/.zshrc

With the setup above, to update run the following

cd ~/.shell/dir
git pull origin main
source ~/.zshrc
cd -

Usage

Simple as

dir /path/to/my/folder

Folder /path/to/my/folder will be created and you will enter into it. You can use an absolute path like the example above or a relative path like

dir folder/i/want/to/create

Are folder names with spaces supported? Yes!

dir ~/you can/create folders/with spaces

If no argument is provided, it will create a temporary folder.

dir

Annotated source

If -h or --help is the first parameter or no argument is provided, then output USAGE.

dir() {
	USAGE=`cat <<EOF
+---------------------------------------------------------+
| Create a folder and enter into it.                      |
|                                                         |
|    dir foo/bar                                          |
|                                                         |
| If no path is given, a temporary folder will be created.|
|                                                         |
| https://github.com/fibo/dir                             |
+---------------------------------------------------------+
EOF`

	[ "$1" = "-h" ] && echo $USAGE && return
	[ "$1" = "--help" ] && echo $USAGE && return

Use mkdir to create given folder and change directory into it.

	if [ $# -gt 0 ]
	then
		mkdir -p "$*" && cd "$_"
	else

If no argument is provided, use mktemp to create a temporary folder and change directory into it.

		cd `mktemp -d`
	fi
}

License

MIT