WCD - Wherever Change Directory

chdir for DOS and Unix, w/C src

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. NCD was written by Brad Kingsbury.

wcd Desk

wcd *top

Wcd is free to use and you can get the source code too.

Features of wcd:

Full screen interactive directory 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, WinZsh, MSYS, Cygwin
• Unix/Linux: all Bourne and C type shells.
• OS/2 Warp

Native language support: Chinese simplified, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Finnish, German, Spanish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.

Unicode Level 3 support (all UCS characters including double width and combining characters).

• Unix/Linux
• Cygwin-1.7.
• 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.

WCD is free software, distributed under GNU General Public License.

Manual wcd.htm or wcd.txt.
ChangeLog whatsnew.txt.

Source Code and binaries

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