"Change directory" option for command line
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2019 6:54 pm
I know! I know! Talk about scope creep! But please hear me out...
Back in the old MSDOS days, a guy named Peter Norton (yes, *that* "Norton") developed a set of tools he called the "Norton Utilities".
This was the original SysInternals or Nirsoft. Fantastic, gotta have tools. I think the first defragmenter was included at some point, but I digress and my memory fails.
Without. A. Doubt. the single best tool in my mind was called NCD: "Norton change directory".
Again my memory is foggy, but I believe that similar to Everything Search, it kept a list of folders, and allowed you to enter a command like:
And it would find where "jimsfolder" was, and take you there, even if it was nested deep, as if you had typed:
It was absolute MAGIC! Suddenly deep folder trees were no longer my worst nightmare.
As I sit here using Everything Search command line to find the folder I'm looking for, and then copying and pasting the folder into a CD command, I thought "Wow! What if Everything Search (the "ES"command") could accept ES /D jimsfolder and PUSHD me there"?
I think I might even try to craft a batch file to do something like that, but I couldn't help but share that idea because I've always had a dream of writing such a beast to replace NCD, and always got stuck with how to cache the folder structure of a terabyte hard drive just to change folders.
Thanks for - bar none - the single best utility for Windows ever made!
Jim
(P.S. I read through a bunch of topics but confess I didn't search the entire forum for a possible duplicate)
Back in the old MSDOS days, a guy named Peter Norton (yes, *that* "Norton") developed a set of tools he called the "Norton Utilities".
This was the original SysInternals or Nirsoft. Fantastic, gotta have tools. I think the first defragmenter was included at some point, but I digress and my memory fails.
Without. A. Doubt. the single best tool in my mind was called NCD: "Norton change directory".
Again my memory is foggy, but I believe that similar to Everything Search, it kept a list of folders, and allowed you to enter a command like:
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C:\>NCD jimsfolder
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CD /D D:\top\level\folder\with\jimsfolder
As I sit here using Everything Search command line to find the folder I'm looking for, and then copying and pasting the folder into a CD command, I thought "Wow! What if Everything Search (the "ES"command") could accept ES /D jimsfolder and PUSHD me there"?
I think I might even try to craft a batch file to do something like that, but I couldn't help but share that idea because I've always had a dream of writing such a beast to replace NCD, and always got stuck with how to cache the folder structure of a terabyte hard drive just to change folders.
Thanks for - bar none - the single best utility for Windows ever made!
Jim
(P.S. I read through a bunch of topics but confess I didn't search the entire forum for a possible duplicate)