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    Autojump is probably the best tool for this, it takes a little while to build up the database of common dirs, but once it does I think you'll find that you can't live without it. I know every time I'm on someone else's computer I feel crippled. Commented Feb 13, 2012 at 18:29
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    thanks love this tool! And although cd - is handy to know if you don't already know it, I think this is a much better solution than the current top answer. Commented Oct 13, 2014 at 4:49
  • Installed system-wide on what systems? Commented Jan 17, 2017 at 16:13
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    @richard It is available as a package (e.g. apt-get install autojump in Ubuntu, but also for many others as documented on their page) for system-wide installation, but each user needs to load it into their shell environment so it can override cd to keep track of where you're going Commented Apr 6, 2017 at 17:56
  • Important to say source /usr/share/autojump/autojump.sh should be added to ~/.bashrc for autojump to work. Commented Jul 10, 2017 at 2:10