Questions tagged [pushd]
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Do we have more history for cd?
cd - can move to the last visited directory. Can we visit more history other than the last one?
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How do I use pushd and popd commands?
What are the practical uses of both pushd and popd when there is an advantage of using these two commands over cd and cd -?
EDIT: I'm looking for some practical examples of uses for both of these ...
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Difference between “cd -” and “cd ~-”
The Bash command
cd -
prints the previously used directory and changes to it.
On the other hand, the Bash command
cd ~-
directly changes to the previously used directory, without echoing ...
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pushd, popd vs cd, cd- in bash and zsh
Is there a difference between the behavior of pushd/popd in bash vs zsh? It seems in zsh cd, cd- behaves exactly the same as pushd/popd (which adds/pops directory automatically when cd) while in bash ...
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removing or clearing stack of popd/pushd paths
After pushding too many times, I want to clear the whole stack of paths.
How would I popd all the items in the stack?
I'd like to popd without needing to know how many are in the stack?
The bash ...
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Refer to an item in `dirs`
I use pushd to work with multiple directories in bash and zsh. I've aliased dirs to dirs -v so that I get an ordered list when I want to see what's on the directory stack:
chb$ dirs
0 /Volumes/...
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Directory stack (pushd and popd) behaviour in bash scripts
If I poorly write a script that uses pushd /etc but I don't finish it with popd: Will /etc still be in the pushd+popd directory stack/in RAM after the bash script has finished executing and Bash has ...
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How does pushd work?
In Ubuntu 16.04 with Bash I had a problem when I didn't have a convenient way to upgrade all my WordPress components (core, translations, theme, plugin) and I used the following code to solve it:
cat ...
