{"id":337,"date":"2014-06-30T15:16:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T13:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/queen.run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be\/~barbette\/?p=337"},"modified":"2014-06-30T15:19:05","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T13:19:05","slug":"zsh-open-terminal-where-you-left-for-each-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/tom.barbette\/zsh-open-terminal-where-you-left-for-each-session\/","title":{"rendered":"ZSH : Open terminal where you left, for each session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is some snippets for ZSH configuration which allow you to re-open the session in the folder where it was last closed available on the web. The problem is that you often launch 3 sessions at the same time, work on them and then quit\/reboot\/loose SSH connections\/&#8230; So you will re-log 3 sessions which will start in the same last opened folder.<\/p>\n<p>I propose a version allowing to keep the last folder per-session. Each ZSH session receive a number and write the current folder in a per-session file. When you open a new session it opens the file number associated to the session number.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Add somewhere in\u00a0.zshrc :<\/p>\n<p>[code]mkdir -p ~\/.cwd\/<br \/>\nsession_num=`pgrep zsh | wc -l`<br \/>\nfunction cd() {<br \/>\nbuiltin cd &#8220;$@&#8221;;<br \/>\necho &#8220;$PWD&#8221; &gt; ~\/.cwd\/$session_num<br \/>\necho &#8220;$PWD&#8221; &gt; ~\/.cwd\/last<br \/>\n}<br \/>\nexport cd<br \/>\nfunction cwd() {<br \/>\nif [ -e ~\/.cwd\/$session_num ] ; then<br \/>\ncd &#8220;$(cat ~\/.cwd\/$session_num)&#8221;<br \/>\nelse<br \/>\ncd &#8220;$(cat ~\/.cwd\/last)&#8221;<br \/>\nfi<br \/>\necho &#8220;This is session #$session_num&#8221;<br \/>\n}[\/code]<\/p>\n<p>And at the bottom of the file :<\/p>\n<p>[code]cwd[\/code]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is some snippets for ZSH configuration which allow you to re-open the session in the folder where it was last closed available on the web. The problem is that you often launch 3 sessions at the same time, work on them and then quit\/reboot\/loose SSH connections\/&#8230; So you will re-log 3 sessions which will &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/tom.barbette\/zsh-open-terminal-where-you-left-for-each-session\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ZSH : Open terminal where you left, for each session&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-server-management","category-unix"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ZSH : Open terminal where you left, for each session - Tom Barbette<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/perso.uclouvain.be\/tom.barbette\/zsh-open-terminal-where-you-left-for-each-session\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ZSH : Open terminal where you left, for each session - Tom Barbette\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There is some snippets for ZSH configuration which allow you to re-open the session in the folder where it was last closed available on the web. 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