---
title: "zoxide"
category: "Terminal and shell"
tagline: "Jump to directories you use often by typing part of their name."
source: "pacman"
package: "zoxide"
command: "z"
code: "https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide"
---

## What it is

zoxide is a smarter `cd`. It remembers the directories you visit and ranks them by how often and how recently you use them, so you can jump to one by typing a fragment of its path.

```
z webcore     # cd to the directory you use most that matches "webcore"
```

## Why it's here

- **Fewer keystrokes.** No more typing long paths to projects you open every day.
- **Learns as you go.** There's nothing to set up: it ranks directories from your history.

## On CoreDesktop

zoxide is installed from pacman and turned on for Bash by CoreDesktop's shell setup, which gives you the `z` command. `zi` does the same with an interactive fzf list. `update` keeps zoxide current with the pacman packages.