Not having heard of either of these before, but now seeing z linked by sibling comment too, I would guess 'z oxide' is a Rust re-implementation of z.

There's a few different versions of this same idea, I think zoxide is the third one I've used. Years ago, I started using z.lua, then switched to a fish shell plugin implementation of z, finally to zoxide. I don't think there's any real difference between them, aside from their implementation language and the ease of installation.

The main difference is speed (Rust vs shell script)

Zoxide normally aliases to z. Is this not z?

This is z, no?

There is a different project called z:

https://github.com/rupa/z

I’d never heard of it but it was the first search result for “z github”.

Or the pure zsh version, which is superior, since it eliminates a ton of forking by eliminating calls to external tools (the original z script relies heavily on awk, sort, date, sed, mv, rm, and chown). There are also significant stability improvements to the database thanks to proper locking.

https://github.com/agkozak/zsh-z

Failed twenty ways to Sunday if I set `ZSHZ_DATA="$HOME/.local/share/zsh-z"` . Could not get it to recover from it.