Clean Up Autojump

autojump is a command-line tool for faster directory changing. It's a must-have on my workstation, because it lets me jump to deeply nested directories like this:

:~/$ j cli
/Users/jwworth/projects/2017/twitter-killer/client
:~/jwworth/projects/2017/twitter-killer/client$

There are two ways we can clean up autojump once it's been running for a while. First, purge non-existant directories from the jump database:

$ j --purge
Purged 8 entries.

Second, edit the file ~/Library/autojump/autojump.txt (OSX), which stores the jump database. Here you can remove directories that should never be jumped to, or are weighted too highly because of frequent use in the past.

Happy jumping!

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