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24 alternatives to A shell-native cd-compatible directory jumper using power-law frecency
I have used this tool privately since 2011 to manage directory jumping. While it is conceptually similar to tools like z or zoxide, the underlying ranking model is different. It uses a power-law convolution with the time series of cd actions to calculate a history-aware "frecency" metric instead of the standard heuristic counters and multipliers. This approach moves away from point-estimates for recency. Most tools look only at the timestamp of the last visit, which can allow a "one-off" burst of activity to clobber long-term habits. By convolving a configurable history window (typically the…
This shell-native directory jumper helps users navigate frequently-used folders by learning from their cd history. It ranks directories using a power-law frecency model that considers patterns across hundreds of past… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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blazing fast `ls` replacement with superpowers. Contribute to chaqchase/lla development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find' - sharkdp/fd
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi all, I've talked about glidesort a few times on HN already, but it's finally ready for release. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. An academic paper on glidesort that goes into a lot more detail than the readme is upcoming, but is not ready yet. I will be giving a talk on glidesort tomorrow at FOSDEM 2023 in the Rust Devroom at 16:10, you can seek me out there as well. In other news, I am leaving academia soon, so if you have interesting (Rust) jobs the coming months feel free to approach me.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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z.sh and zoxide (and other frecency-based directory jumpers) couple score decay to wall-clock time. After any extended period of inactivity (e.g. holidays) the first directories visited on return dominate the ranking regardless of prior history, and the tool effectively has to relearn ranking from subsequent navigation. The underlying issue is that wall-clock time during shell inactivity carries no information about directory relevance. ze.sh replaces wall-clock time with an event clock that advances one tick per cd action. Scores decay only while navigation is occurring. Inactive periods…
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I wrote a small program to browse folders in the terminal. The main inspiration was type-ahead search in GUI file managers. There exist several programs that are similar (see the listing in the README), but none of them do it quite the way I like, and often they have a very complex UI and a ton of features. I tried to make something that is obvious how to use and gets out of your way. (I also wanted an excuse to learn Rust.) Let me know what you think!
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Jump▲116Helps you navigate the file system by learning your habits.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We needed something like --dangerously-skip-permissions that doesn’t nuke your untracked files, exfiltrate your keys, or install malware. Claude Code's permission system is allow-or-deny per tool, but that doesn’t really scale. Deleting some files is fine sometimes. And git checkout is sometimes not fine. Even when you curate permissions, 200 IQ Opus can find a way around it. Maintaining a deny list is a fool's errand. nah is a PreToolUse hook that classifies every tool call by what it actually does, using a deterministic classifier that runs in milliseconds. It maps commands to action types…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Facad is about functionality, not just aesthetics. Key features: - Intuitive file type representation - Smart sorting (directories first, then by extension) - Four-column layout for quick directory analysis It evolved from this alias: alias ls='ls -A -F --group-directories-first --sort=extension --color=always' Facad takes this concept further, offering more flexibility and visual clarity.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi Everyone, I built a tool for interactive navigation in the terminal that is intended to replace the all-too-familiar cycle of `ls` to view a directory, followed by `cd`, then `ls`, and repeat. nav is a terminal filesystem explorer built for interactive `ls` workflows. The key features I wanted to enable are interactivity and search without feeling like I'm using anything other than `ls`. nav supports common `ls` options/flags, as well as tab completion, and might expand its support for less common options in the future. These options exist as both CLI flags and interactive toggles.…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A smarter shell and scripting environment with advanced features designed for usability, safety and productivity (eg smarter DevOps tooling) - lmorg/murex
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This project is a tool for engineers who live in the terminal and are tired of losing their command history to ephemeral servers or fragmented `.bash_history` files. If you’re jumping between dozens of boxes, many of which might be destroyed an hour later, your "local memory" (the history file) is essentially useless. This tool builds a centralized, permanent brain for your shell activity, ensuring that a complex one-liner you crafted months ago remains accessible even if the server it ran on is long gone. The core mechanism wants to be a "zero-touch" capture that happens at the connection…
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I work on R00M 101, a Reddit-based OSINT profiler. While building it, I realized most open-source intelligence (OSINT) tools are scattered across GitHub, outdated blog posts, or random Discords. So I put together a public-facing directory of 100+ OSINT tools used by analysts, journalists, and security folks, free, filterable, and categorized by risk, platform, and use case. The idea was to make something useful and no-friction. Built with static HTML + SQL backend + a lot of caffeine. Would love feedback on how to improve the UX or tool curation. If anyone wants to contribute tools or help…
2025 · r00m101.com · its alternatives →
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In the deep mists of time (circa 2012), I was playing with the Go standard library, and saw how easy it was to stand up a webserver that let you navigate a remote file system, and I thought it was pretty neat. I took a look at my shell history and a frequent pattern of commands was "cd, ls, cd, ls, ...". And I thought "I love my keyboard, but you know, point and click might be nice in this context." And then I thought, "It'd be even cooler if you could run commands there." Skip forward several years, a few earlier implementations, a name change, and now there's Hucksh(ell), a bash-like shell…
2023 · its alternatives →
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My Downloads folder had been left unkept for a really long time and cleaning it up using Finder was quite cumbersome. So I started creating a simple app to help me filter out and delete or move the files in the folder. It started out very basic and the filtering options genuinely helped me clean out the Downloads folder, then as I thought of more features I would like to see in a file manager I started to add them. Some of the features are: - Fuzzy go to folder/file where you only need to write a few letters of a full path, get suggestions and can jump to the correct path instantly -…
Jul 2026 · whimfiles.com · its alternatives →
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DuckDisk▲104Table-first storage analysis for Mac, cloud, and SSH
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Bash and Zsh shell history TUI suggest box - easily view, navigate, search and manage your command history. - dvorka/hstr
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Smarter shell history for Zsh. Contribute to overflowy/zhist development by creating an account on GitHub.
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Linux Shell 'cd' replacement tool. cd on steroids, with fuzzy file finder and a directory bookmark saver. - ankitvad/goto
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Dastardly▲57A lightweight web app security scanner for your CI pipelines
2022 · portswigger.net · its alternatives →
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local-first MCP discovery runtime for agents — search before invoke, reduce prompt bloat, and route to local MCP tools - mcp-shark/lazy-tool
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Ever solved a tricky problem at the command line, only to struggle documenting it later? I built Savvy so you can capture and share your CLI solutions in seconds. With a simple savvy record history command, you can: - Go back in time and cherry pick commands from your shell history - Automatically expand aliases - Redact sensitive information locally - Convert hard-coded values into runtime placeholders - Export locally to markdown files or create shareable team workflows using Savvy. Savvy never reads command outputs - you explicitly choose what to share. When running workflows, Savvy…
2024 · getsavvy.so · its alternatives →
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Hold on tight. Contribute to alexpasmantier/grip-grab development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The CI acceleration platform that detects flaky tests and speeds up merges. Used by Brex, Ramp, Supabase, and Zillow.
2021 · trunk.io · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone I just created Deja, a tool that instead of only surfacing commands that start with what you've typed, suggest what you actually want to run. I built it because I was using zsh autosuggestions but got tired of typing the same commands again and again. So Deja predicts your next command from your history. Let me know what you think
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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