(c) 2021 Gon Y Yi. https://gonyyi.com. Apache License 2.0

zTmp is a bash script that helps to create and manage temporary directories for daily task for OS X and Linux.

# download ztmp
git clone https://github.com/gonyyi/bash-ztmp.git
cd bash-ztmp

# install
./install-ztmp.sh

# zTmp install
# (c)Gon Y. Yi (gonyyi.com)
# 
# Install location:
#   (1) bash
#   (2) zshrc
# Where to install? (1/2): 1
# Installing for bash
# [OK] Copy script to home directory (/Users/myName/)
# [OK] successfully added to /Users/myName/.bashrc

NOTE: After installation, you restart the bash or zsh to have this applied.

ztmp <COMMAND> <OPTIONAL PARAM>

Commands

• help: help menu
• new: create new, ztmp new test1
• go: go to tmp dir created, ztmp go test1
  • Partial name can be used, ztmp go t1 (go to test1)
• last: go to the last tmp folder created, ztmp last
• today: list tmp folder created today, ztmp today
• list or -ls: list tmp folders, ztmp list
• find or -f: search tmp folders, ztmp find t1
  • This will search tmp folders as well as archived folders.
• remove or -rm: remove current tmp folder, ztmp remove
  • This can only be used inside the target tmp directory.
  • This moves the current tmp directory into trash folder set from the .bashrc-ztmp.sh file. -- Default: ~/ztmp/.trash/
• archive or -a: archive current tmp folder, ztmp archive
  • This moves the current tmp directory into archived folder set from the .bashrc-ztmp.sh file. -- Default: ~/ztmp/archive/

To create a temporary directory called "test", a command ztmp new test will create the directory and cd to the newly created directory.

~ $ ztmp new test
Created /Users/myName/zTmp/2021-0528-test
~/zTmp/2021-0528-test $ 

The go option takes you to the directory without the full path. Assume you have following temp folders in your ztmp directory:

~ $ ztmp -ls
/Users/myName/zTmp/2021-0528-blahblah/
/Users/myName/zTmp/2021-0528-myTest/
/Users/myName/zTmp/2021-0528-test/

Command ztmp go test will take you to the first directory (2021-0528-test), as there aren't any other candidate with the name matching with "test".

But, if you try ztmp go est, both 2021-0528-myTest and 2021-0528-test matches with `est. Therefore it will give a suggestions as below:

~ $ ztmp go est 
More than 1 result (total of 2):

/Users/myName/zTmp/2021-0528-myTest/
/Users/myName/zTmp/2021-0528-test/

Note: This can be used only inside the tmp directory.

One removed, it will be moved to designated trash directory. (default: .trash)

~ $ ztmp go test
~/zTmp/2021-0528-test $ ztmp remove
Successfully moved /2021-0528-test to trash (.trash)
~ $ ls .trash 
2021-0528-test
~ $

Note: This can be used only inside the tmp directory.

One removed, it will be moved to designated archive directory. (default: archive)

~ $ ztmp go est
~/zTmp/2021-0528-myTest $ ztmp archive
Successfully moved /2021-0528-myTest to archive (archive)
~ $ ls archive
2021-0528-myTest
~ $