Booky

A simple bookmark manager for the command line.

There are several more powerful alternatives, but it's not always possible to install them. Booky only depends on the Python standard library.

Setup

To be able to change directories, a wrapper function around Booky is required.

zsh completion

# Wrappers for booky
alias booky='python -m booky'

function bcd() {
    # Restore a directory from booky
    if [ $# -gt 1 ]; then
        return 1
    fi

    DIR=$(booky get $1)
    if [ $? != 0 ]; then
        return 1
    fi

    cd $DIR
}

# Completion for bcd
function _bcd() {
    local bookmarks
    bookmarks=("${(@f)$(python -m booky list -m)}")
    _describe 'bookmark' bookmarks
}
setopt complete_aliases
compdef _bcd bcd

Notes

The bookmarks file is not locked, so simultaneous reading and writing results in undefined behavior.