broot VS zoxide

Definitely a fair sentiment. I personally like having a static visualizer handy because sometimes I just want to do a quick assessment rather than boot up an entire interactive CLI, but if interactivity is what you want broot has you covered :]

You may be interested in broot

I think you’re conflating different projects.

There are projects that aim for a better user experience, with better command line interface, defaults, performance and UI. These are of course breaking changes and the programs can’t be used as drop in replacement. Some examples are

- ls => exa (https://github.com/ogham/exa)

- grep => ripgrep (https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep)

- cat => bat (https://github.com/sharkdp/bat)

- tree => broot (https://github.com/Canop/broot)

The person you’re replying to was speaking of a different project - uutils (https://github.com/uutils/coreutils). These are drop in replacements with identical interfaces (modulo bugs).

Even better broot, previously adding view verb to config:

Broot: https://github.com/Canop/broot

- will navigate via broot if it is a directory or will view it on a pager --bind 'ctrl-/:execute( if [[ -d {} ]]; then broot {} > /dev/tty else bat --paging=always -pf -l=sh {} > /dev/tty fi)' // Also can add another condition to check file-mimetype if an image to preview it

Broot is a tree alternative with a better user experience, and you can use it to navigate a file structure. It's fast and respects .gitignore. You can cd into a directory from the tree view, open sub-directories in a panel, and even preview files. It has excellent keyboard navigation as well. It has many more features.

broot

It's not. It's a DIY thingie which mostly creates the sh scripts you see at the root of my rust repos (exemple: https://github.com/Canop/broot) as well as a wrapper script deploying the docs and binaries to my server. Nothing high tech. I'll probably do a cargo utility someday for that but I don't think it will be useful for other people.

For jumping around directories, I use zoxide.

zoxide is a replacement for the common cd command that is designed to offer more-efficient navigation. It tracks which directories you use most frequently, so you can switch to them in just a few keystrokes. Works on all major shells. Credit for this one goes to rochakgupta.

prefix + T (customisable) - displays a pop-up with fzf which displays the existing sessions followed by recently accessed directories (using zoxide). Choose the session or the directory and voila! You're in that session. If the session doesn't exist, it will be created.

(Fuzzy finder plugin that uses ripgrep and fzf)

https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide

Have a look at zoxide or its inspiration, autojump.

zoxide is a smarter cd replacement. It remembers the directories you visit, and you can jump to them without providing a full path. You can provide partial paths or even a word from the path. When there are similar paths, zoxide offers an interactive selection using fzf. It is super fast and works with all major shells. I like how it works, and I have aliased cd to z so I can use it everywhere.

🔗 https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide

cd replacement - Zoxide