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lfowles on March 13, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Know Your Tools – Terminal and Bash

Also: Accidentally ran `cd`? Run `cd -` to return

I think there are some pop/push mechanics for working directory too, but I can't find them right now.

GauntletWizard on March 13, 2015 | [–]

The commands are pushd and popd, and they're bash (and zsh, and most sane shell) builtins. Pushd to get to a new directory, popd to go back to the last one on the stack.

OlivierLi on March 13, 2015 | | [–]

Tip : Setting cd as an alias for pushd make the whole thing much more intuitive.

spike021 on March 13, 2015 | [–]

Oh handy! Hadn't come across that before. Thanks.

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