thomdixon/powerjump

Shortcut navigation in PowerShell made easy

PowerJump

PowerJump is a simple module to help with navigating your filesystem in PowerShell, inspired by Jeroen Janssens' blog post which provides details on obtaining the same functionality in zsh and bash.

Installation

In order to install, simply clone the repository into a directory listed as part of the PSModulePath environment variable, and then import the module in your profile. For example, to install as your user,

> cd "C:\Users\$env:username\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\"
> git clone https://github.com/thomdixon/PowerJump.git

then add

import-module powerjump

to your PowerShell profile. If you're unfamiliar with PowerShell profiles, check out:

> help about_profile

How It Works

A thomdixon\PowerJump folder is created in the current user's AppData directory. Shortcuts are stored here when marked, and their targets are resolved upon jump. That's all there is to it.

Usage

Usage is fairly straightforward.

PS C:\Users\thom> mark home
PS C:\Users\thom> cd Documents\Foo
PS C:\Users\thom\Documents\Foo> jump home
PS C:\Users\thom> marks

Mark                                                     Target
----                                                     ------
home                                                     C:\Users\thom

PS C:\Users\thom>unmark home
Confirm
Are you sure you want to perform this action?
Performing operation "Remove File" on Target "C:\Users\thom\AppData\Roaming\thomdixon\PowerJump\home.lnk".
[Y] Yes  [A] Yes to All  [N] No  [L] No to All  [S] Suspend  [?] Help (default is "Y"): N
PS C:\Users\thom>