Vim, Cygwin, MySQL & Zsh Tips

I’d put some new files into a folder before remembering to mothball all the old files:-

Here is a zsh solution:-

>mv *.*(^m-1)   ./old

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I’ve never got the hang of popd & pushd they seemed a bit pointless. zsh however has extended their abilities eg:-

> dirs -v    # number and list your recent directories one per line

> cd ~5     # cd to directory 5 in the directory stack

> cd -<tab>    # the tab complete lists the directory stack then type a digit to select the one you require (saves you having to do a dirs -v in the first place

I have to work in very complicated directory structures so this will be fantastically useful.

#don’t forget the zsh cd substitute command

> cd olddir newdir

eg you are in

/inetpub/wwwroot/www.livesite.co.uk/products/

> cd live test

/inetpub/wwwroot/www.testsite.co.uk/products/

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