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zrs is a directory switching helper, based onrupa's z.

It tracks which directories you frequently visit, andhow recently you have been using them. It will try to takeyou to the best matching directory for some inputs.

For example,z bar could take you to/home/you/code/bar, andz foo bar could take you to/var/lib/dogfood/libs/bombard.

zrs consists of two parts.

• zrs is a Rust binary that needs tobe in your path.cargo install zrs should work, if you have~/.cargo/bin in your path.

• z.sh is a helper script that must besourced in your shell.

zrs can add this for you:

$ zrs --add-to-profilewritten helper script to "/home/faux/.local/share/zrs/z.sh"couldn't append to "/home/faux/.bashrc": Os { code: 2, kind: NotFound, message: "No such file or directory" }appended '. .../z.sh' to "/home/faux/.zshrc"

rupa's shell implementation ofz has a number of performance andsafety issues.zrs solves these by being written as a single binary,and by being much more careful about touching the filesystem, andforking (releasing the shell) before doing anything slow.

• some features missing
• much faster and much less likely to lose your data file writes(try holding down return in a shell some time)
• regex syntax is PCRE
• missing directories will only be eliminated on explicit--clean