Directory browser and changer for the command line

• dialog

Linux, unix, BSD, MacOS

This script probably won't work from the Windows command line unless you're using WSL or some other modified command line environment.

Add this function to your environment by editing your ~/.profile, ~/.bashrc, ~/.zshrc, etc (change the path in the code below to match the path to where the menucd.sh script is located):

function menucd () {
  $HOME/scripts/menucd.sh $@
  ret=$?
  if [ -r /tmp/menucd.cd.exit ]; then
          cd "`cat /tmp/menucd.cd.exit`"
          rm /tmp/menucd.cd.exit
  elif [ $ret != 0 ]; then
          echo Fail
  fi
}

Reload ~/.profile (or whichever rc file you edited):

source ~/.profile

Then run menucd. If you run the script (menucd.sh) by itself, it won't work.