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Terminal velocity: Moving fast in your shell

You know how you can type the first few letters of a commonly-used website into your browser and hit Enter with the confidence that you’ll be taken to the right place? What if we brought that same experience into your shell? Imagine that you could teleport to a commonly-used directory just by typing a small part of its name. That’s what z does.

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