zoxide

A faster way to navigate your filesystem

• Introduction
• Examples
• Getting started
  • Installing zoxide
  • Installing fzf (optional)
  • Adding zoxide to your shell
    • bash
    • fish
    • POSIX
    • PowerShell
    • zsh
• Configuration
  • init flags
  • Environment variables

zoxide is a blazing fast alternative to cd, inspired by z and z.lua. It keeps track of the directories you use most frequently, and uses a ranking algorithm to navigate to the best match.

z foo       # cd to highest ranked directory matching foo
z foo bar   # cd to highest ranked directory matching foo and bar

z foo/      # can also cd into actual directories

zi foo      # cd with interactive selection using fzf

zq foo      # echo the best match, don't cd

za /foo     # add /foo to the database
zr /foo     # remove /foo from the database

yay -S zoxide

dnf copr enable atim/zoxide
dnf install zoxide

pkg install zoxide

dnf install zoxide

pkg install zoxide

brew install zoxide

port install zoxide

nix-env -iA nixpkgs.zoxide

xbps-install -S zoxide

scoop install zoxide

cargo install zoxide -f

Use the installation script:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide/master/install.sh | sh

Alternatively, you can also download a precompiled binary from the releases page and add it to your PATH.

If you want to use interactive fuzzy selection, you will also need to install fzf.

If you currently use z, z.lua, or zsh-z, you may want to first import your existing database into zoxide:

zoxide import /path/to/db

Add the following line to your ~/.bashrc:

eval "$(zoxide init bash)"

Add the following line to your ~/.config/fish/config.fish:

zoxide init fish | source

Add the following line to your shell's configuration file:

eval "$(zoxide init posix --hook prompt)"

The prompt hook is recommended for POSIX shells because the default pwd hook creates a temporary file for every session, which are only deleted upon reboot. If you do want to use pwd hooks instead, you may want to set up traps to perform a cleanup once the shell exits:

trap '_zoxide_cleanup' EXIT HUP KILL TERM
trap '_zoxide_cleanup; trap - INT; kill -s INT "$$"' INT
trap '_zoxide_cleanup; trap - QUIT; kill -s QUIT "$$"' QUIT

NOTE: If you modify your PS1 at any point, you may need to re-run the above command. This is due to the fact that the hook is stored in PS1, in order to be evaluated every time the prompt is displayed.

Add the following line to your profile:

Invoke-Expression (& {
    $hook = if ($PSVersionTable.PSVersion.Major -lt 6) { 'prompt' } else { 'pwd' }
    (zoxide init --hook $hook powershell) -join "`n"
})

Add the following line to your ~/.zshrc:

eval "$(zoxide init zsh)"

• --cmd: change the z command (and corresponding aliases) to something else
• --hook <HOOK>: change the event that adds a new entry to the database (default: pwd)
  • none: never add entries (this will make zoxide useless unless you manually configure a hook)
  • prompt: add an entry at every prompt
  • pwd: add an entry whenever the current directory is changed
• --no-aliases: don't define extra aliases like zi, zq, za, and zr

• $_ZO_DATA_DIR: directory where zoxide will store its data files (default: platform-specific; see the dirs documentation for more information)
• $_ZO_ECHO: when set to 1, z will print the matched directory before navigating to it
• $_ZO_EXCLUDE_DIRS: list of directories separated by platform-specific characters (":" on Linux/macOS, ";" on Windows) to be excluded from the database
• $_ZO_FZF_OPTS: custom flags to pass to fzf
• $_ZO_MAXAGE: sets the maximum total age after which entries start getting deleted
• $_ZO_RESOLVE_SYMLINKS: when set to 1, z add will resolve symlinks.