WCD

Wherever Change Directory - chdir for DOS and Unix

Description

Wcd is a command-line program to change directory fast. It saves time typing at
the keyboard. One needs to type only a part of a directory name and wcd will
jump to it. Wcd has a fast selection method in case of multiple matches and
allows aliasing and banning of directories. Wcd also includes a full screen
interactive directory tree browser with speed search.

Wcd was modeled after Norton Change Directory (NCD). NCD appeared first in
The Norton Utilities, Release 4, for DOS in 1987, published by Peter Norton.

Wcd has been ported to different command-line shells: DOS command.com,
Windows cmd.exe and PowerShell, OS/2 cmd.exe, and Unix shells such as Bourne
(sh), Bourne Again (bash), Korn (ksh), Z (zsh), and C (csh) shell and others
running on any operating system.

Wcd supports 8 bit character sets on all systems, and has optional
support for Unicode.

Features

• Full screen interactive directory tree browser with speed search and
  zoom in/out.
• Present the user a list in case of multiple matches.
• Wildcards *, ? and [SET] supported.
• Directory stack, push pop.
• Subdir definition possible. E.g. wcd subdira/subdirb
• Long directory names support in Win95/98/NT DOS-box
• Windows LAN UNC paths supported.
• Change drive and directory at once.
• Alias directories.
• Ban directories.
• Exclude directories.
• Alternate stack per shell or terminal.
• Multi user: Jump to folders of your colleagues.
• Multi platform:
• DOS 16 bit, DOS 32 bit, DOS bash
• Windows Command Prompt, Windows PowerShell, Windows ZSH, MSYS, Cygwin
• Unix/Linux: all Bourne and C type shells
• OS/2 Warp
• Native language support: Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese simplified, Danish,
  Dutch, English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, Friulian, German, Romanian, Serbian, Spanish,
  Swedish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.
• Unicode Level 3 support (all UCS characters including double width and combining characters).
• Unix/Linux
• Cygwin.
• Windows PowerShell.
• Windows Command Prompt (cmd.exe) on Windows 7 and up.
• Unicode matching with normalization (compatible equivalence).
• Option to ignore diacritics for Latin-based scripts.

Project information

Maintainer: Erwin Waterlander [email protected]

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