Yes... 'cd -' works previous channel button on a tv remote. 'pushd/popd' put the directories on a stack. So we can change many directories in the middle and just come back to original directory in the end.
e.g. #pwd /first/dir/ #cd /second/dir #cd /third/dir #cd - #pwd /second/dir #cd - #pwd /third/dir whereas, #pwd /first/dir/ #pushd /second/dir #cd /third/dir #popd #pwd /first/dir ______Sudarsan On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:37, narendra sisodiya <[email protected] > wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Sudarsan Sridhar > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> For those who use terminal a lot: Sometimes there is a requirement to save >> the previous working directory and change to another directory, do something >> and come back. The commands 'pushd' and 'popd' help. >> >> e.g, >> >> #pwd >> /original/directory >> # pushd /path/to/the/new/directory >> >> ---do something--- >> >> #popd >> #pwd >> /original/directory >> >> If I am not wrong, we can jump to prev directory using "cd -" > $cd - > -- > ┌─────────────────────────┐ > │ Narendra Sisodiya ( नरेन्द्र सिसोदिया ) > │ Web : http://narendra.techfandu.org > │ Twitter : http://tinyurl.com/dz7e4a > └─────────────────────────┘ > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Do you have another question? Click here - http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug/post Read archive - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ l...@iitd community mailing list -- http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
