portalctl

portalctl

portalctl and portal make diving into "deep" directories easy!

Installation

go install github.com/sirkon/portalctl@latest # Install portalctl.
portalctl setup                               # Adds portal to your shell and do some other stuff.

What it is and how to use.

Imagine we have a project with deep hierachy of folders. You may do something like cd project/internal/libray/internal/sublibrary/…/destination one time, two times, but it quickly becomes bothersome once you need to do this again and again and again. Meh.

portalctl and portal are means to do this pretty easy. The usage scenario with them is:

• Once in a directory you run

  portalctl here <dest> 
  

  Where <dest> is some identifier.
• When you need to cd in that folder again you just

  portal <dest>
  

And your bash or zsh will move you there.

More on the portalctl.

You can do some management with it:

What is under the hood.

portalctl works like a database:

• once you do "write" type operations, it adds a new record to a log file placed in <user cache directory>/portalctl/.
• it reads records in the log file and do a response logic once you do "read" type operation. It is always "full scan", so that's why log-compact is provided. Albeit, the log shouldn't be that huge to really care about this: there are only a few directories you need to go into regularly in any reasonable scenario.