scratch

scratch

Bash function to jump to quickly create a temporary directory for an experiment.

Installation

Source the scratch.sh file in your .bashrc.

Customization

You can customize which directory is used as the home of the experiment folders. By default it is ~/Scratch, but you can change it to anything you want by setting the SCRATCH_DIR environment variable.

export SCRATCH_DIR=~/experiments

Usage

In general, this module works like p.sh with the exception that folders that could not be matched to any preexisting one will be created instead.

Given a folder structure of:

• ~/Scratch
• ~/Scratch/my-experiment
• ~/Scratch/my-other-experiment

scratch allows you to jump to any existing folder within the Scratch folder.

~ $ scrach my-experiment
~/Scratch/my-experiment $

If no such experiment exists, it will create the directory for you.

~ $ scratch new-stuff
~/Scratch/new-stuff $

It will however attempt to find a similarly named projects by fuzzy matching your input:

~ $ scrach my
~/Scratch/my-experiment $

It also supports tab completion:

~ $ scratch my
my-experiment   my-other-experiment