shonenjump is a lightweight autojump clone written in Go.

Quote from the description of autojump:

autojump is a faster way to navigate your filesystem. It works by maintaining a database of the directories you use the most from the command line.

Directories must be visited first before they can be jumped to.

Once you have cd into a directory, shonenjump will save it in a list. The next time you can use the j shortcut to visit it.

For example, suppose that you have cd into a directory called /usr/local/Very-Long-Dir-Name/Sub-Dir/target after shonenjump is enabled. You can then use j long or j target or j vldn to visit it.

Sometimes the first matched directory is not what you want, you can type j <your key word> and then type Tab to trigger auto completion and see the options.

brew install suzaku/homebrew-shonenjump/shonenjump

Arch Linux user can build/install from the AUR.

Users of other distros can follow these steps:

1. Download the shonenjump binary for your platform, place it in a directory in your $PATH.

2. Download the setup script for your shell and include it in your shell profile.

   For example, if you are using zsh, you can do the following:

   wget -O ~/.shonenjump.zsh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/suzaku/shonenjump/master/scripts/shonenjump.zsh
   echo '. $HOME/.shonenjump.zsh' >> ~/.zshrc

3. If you are using zsh, you'll need an extra step to setup tab completion.

   You need to place a script into the zsh/site-functions directory:

   cd <Your Zsh Site-functions Dir>
   wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/suzaku/shonenjump/master/scripts/_j

Shonenjump keeps its database of visited directories as a flat text file as does autojump. Users can simply copy autojump.txt to shonenjump.txt to use it.

The default path varies according to your system: