Easily change to your Documents directory on Windows Subsytem for Linux
Look, the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is still new. We're all still
learning the ropes and working with its (many) quirks. One of the more annoying
quirks is that users' home directory structures are placed in the AppData folder
of the Ubuntu package. This means accessing your Windows Documents folder
requires you to navigate to /mnt/c/Users/%username%/Documents
. While this
really isn't a huge detail, it gets annoying typing all of that over and over.
Thus, toDocs is born.
With a simple $ to-docs
command from in the directory hierarchy, you will be
transported to your Documents folder. This is done by placing a simple function
at the end of your .bashrc file (don't worry, a backup is made before
installation so you can revert at any time). Sure, this could be done using a
simple alias, but aren't npm packages more fun? Which brings me to...
$ npm install todocs
$ to-docs
That's it. For real. Now please continue using the valuable seconds you would have
wasted typing $ cd
commands to create something marvelous.
Note: do not install using sudo. Nor should you install using the -g flag. Doing either of these will cause issues with paths and permissions. You've been warned.