Excellent trick. I will be using it later today. Thanks! Woody
On 1/27/10, Curt Lundgren <verif...@gmail.com> wrote: > I enjoy using pushd, but I typically forget to use it before changing > directories. Of course there's always 'cd -' which will take you to > the last directory you were in. Just now I had a thought - will this > work with pushd? The answer is yes. > > Scenario: You're in /home/foo and you cd to /usr/local/bin. Now you > remember you're going to bounce back & forth between these > directories. You could 'pushd /home/foo' then 'pushd' to establish > two directories on top of the directory stack and get back to where > you just were. Here's the cool trick. Just do 'pushd -' and you've > now got your current directory plus the one you were just in in the > directory stack. The 'pushd' command by itself will move you between > the top two directories listed in the stack. > > To display the contents of the directory stack, use 'dirs' > > Curt > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
