{"id":6455,"date":"2017-07-27T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=6455"},"modified":"2017-07-27T12:14:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T16:14:27","slug":"collapsing-empty-directories-in-zsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=6455","title":{"rendered":"Collapsing Empty Directories in Zsh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this month, I wrote about Fuco1’s package to collapse empty directories in dired listings<\/a>. That’s a handy thing that lets you avoid clicking through a series of empty directories1<\/a><\/sup> to reach the file or directory you really want. <\/p>\n

The idea originated with GitHub where Karl Voit<\/a> noticed it and soon became addicted. He started wishing he could do the same sort of thing in zsh<\/a>. In particular, he wanted to have cd<\/code> jump over the empty directories so he didn’t have to list all the intermediate directories. With the help of seanliao96 he offers a nice bit of shell code that does just that. <\/p>\n

If you’re a zsh user, you should take a look at Voit’s post and see if you want to adopt his code. As I say, it’s a simple shell function that you can paste into your zshrc.local<\/code> so it’s easy to experiment with and get rid of if you don’t like it. <\/p>\n

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Footnotes: <\/h2>\n
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1<\/a><\/sup> <\/p>\n
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By which I mean directories that have only a single entry of another directory. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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