# Install jump with Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix

Helps you navigate your file system faster by learning your habits. Version 0.67.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-25. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#jump.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:jump
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install jump
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install jump
```

  Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/jump/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#jump
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ju/jump/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:jump
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.67.0
- **Source summary:** Helps you navigate your file system faster by learning your habits
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/gsamokovarov/jump>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/gsamokovarov/jump>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-25T20:58:06-04:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- jump (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.67.0
## Project history and usage

Jump is a shell-integrated directory jumper. It records directories a user visits and lets the user move back to them with short fuzzy queries through a shell helper, usually bound as `j`.

### Project history

Jump's public GitHub releases begin with v0.1.0 on September 6, 2015. The README describes the central idea that the tool integrates with the shell, tracks visited directories, and jumps to the right directory with a few fuzzy-typed characters.

The tool evolved from a simple Go command into a cross-shell navigation helper with Bash, Zsh, Fish, PowerShell, Nushell, and Murex integration. Later releases added behavior such as deep jumps, reverse jumps, relative jumps, pins, imports from `autojump` or `z`, and based mode for repository or monorepo navigation.

### Adoption history

Jump was packaged for macOS through Homebrew and MacPorts, for Nix, for Snap, and through downloadable Debian and RPM artifacts. That distribution mix put it in the same everyday CLI category as `autojump`, `z`, and other frecency-style directory jumpers.

The README's import support for `autojump` and `z` shows that Jump was designed to meet users already carrying directory-history databases from earlier tools.

### How it is used

Users install Jump, evaluate `jump shell` in their shell startup, and then use `j` queries to move through the filesystem. The README documents fuzzy, exact, deep, relative, reverse, case-sensitive, pinned, and based-mode jumps.

Database commands such as `jump clean`, `jump forget`, and `jump top` manage or inspect the learned directory data.

### Why package nerds care

Jump is a tidy example of a small Go CLI that becomes useful only through shell integration. The package-manager job is not just installing a binary, but making a discoverable post-install path for shell init.

It belongs to the package-nerd genre of tools that optimize `cd`, a deceptively small workflow improvement that heavy terminal users notice immediately.

### Timeline

- 2015-09-06: GitHub release v0.1.0 was published.
- 2016-02-19: GitHub release v0.7.1 was published.
- 2019-04-08: GitHub release v0.23.0 was published.
- 2022-08-07: GitHub release v0.51.0 was published.
- 2025-12-12: GitHub release v0.67.0 was published.

### Related projects

- Jump is related to `autojump`, `z`, `zoxide`, and shell-native directory stack features.
- The README documents import support for `autojump` and `z`, making those tools explicit migration sources.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/gsamokovarov/jump>
- <https://github.com/gsamokovarov/jump/releases>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - jump: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ju/jump/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- MacPorts - jump: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/jump/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/jump.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/jump.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph