autojump is a faster way to navigate your filesystem. It works by maintaining a database of the directories you use the most from the command line. The jumpstat command shows you the current contents of the database. You need to work a little bit before the database becomes usable. Autojump will listen and rank your 'cd' commands by frequency. Once your database is reasonably complete, you can "jump" to a commonly "cd"ed directory. It supports the bash, zsh, and tcsh shells. Installation ------------ Add the following to your .bashrc so that autojump commands will be recognized: source /etc/profile.d/autojump.bash Next, open a new shell and execute: $ cd /tmp $ cd /home $ cd /var $ j tmp You should be dropped back into the /tmp directory. You can activate autojump for other shells by changing the sourced file extension to a supported shell name.