# How to Bookmark commands in Terminal

Always we hate to type or search or copy and paste most often used commands in the terminal.

I found a great tool to ease the navigation in the terminal, called [**Apparix**](https://micans.org/apparix/). It lets you bookmark a folder so that you easily can navigate to it just by typing

```to nameofbookmark```

To install apparix in Ubuntu, type

```sudo apt-get install apparix```

To install in Mac, type

`brew install -v apparix` or  [Run this Script](https://gist.github.com/glombard/a91a822098aed7bb50a7) 

in a terminal window.

After installation, you need to set up the aliases `bm` for bookmarking and `to` for going to a bookmark by adding a few functions to your `.bashrc file` in your home folder (if you don’t have this file, you can create it yourself).

You’ll find the functions you need to add by issuing the command

```apparix –shell-examples```

in a terminal window. Copy everything below **Bash-style functions** except the **CSH-style aliases**. Paste this into your `.bashrc file`.

Open up a new terminal, cd to your directory of choice and type

```bm mybookmark```

to bookmark the folder. Afterward, you can go to any folder and type

```to mybookmark```

to go to your bookmark.

This tool is, of course, available for other Linux distributions too.

Reference:  [https://micans.org/apparix/](https://micans.org/apparix/)