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sigterm on May 15, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: OS X Command Line Utilities

uhh... I have known pushd and popd for quite a long time, but never realized that pushd can be used in place of cd. So what I have been doing all the time is:

pushd .

cd some_dir

pling on May 15, 2014 [–]

I've been using Unix machines and pushd since the mid 1990s and just learned this as well. All those wasted years...

Some examples here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushd_and_popd

Edit: change to desktop Wikipedia URL.

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