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I have made a some bookmarks in Nautilus, i.e. shortcut links to some directories.

I would like to cd to a directory which has been bookmarked in Nautilus. I was wondering if that is possible?

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  • Do you really want the bookmarks, or do you want mounted network locations?
    – jordanm
    Mar 8 '13 at 21:44
  • The bookmarks point to some directories on my local file system. THere is no network involved.
    – Tim
    Mar 8 '13 at 21:54
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Nautilus saves its bookmarks in a file named .gtk-bookmarks in your home (from Ubuntu 13.04 on, it's located in .config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks). The bookmarks are stored in clear text, one bookmark per line. With a bit of shell scripting it should be possible to parse the file and configure your shell to allow something like: cd somebookmarkname.

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    add this to your shell's startup files (bash, zsh and similar): function cdbm { cd $(grep $1 ~/.gtk-bookmarks | awk '-F//' '{print $2}') }
    – SuperMagic
    Mar 8 '13 at 23:04
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Old thread, but in case it helps someone, the helpful comment by @SuperMagic didn't work for me in ksh, so instead I put this in .kshrc:

function cdbm { 
   ENTRY=$(grep "$1" $HOME/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks) 
   DIR=$(echo "$ENTRY" | sed 's|file://||g' | cut -d' ' -f1)
   cd $DIR
}
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  • This also works in bash (./bashrc).
    – L. D. James
    Nov 10 '17 at 7:03

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