Re: Back Command :)

["Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>]

At 03:39 PM 10/13/2000, Jeremy Greiner wrote:
>this may come in handy for those of us command 
>line fanatics. It allows for a quick back button 
>if you will, like if your in a dir /usr/local/bin
>and you cd'd to /home/user/dev/stuff and you 
>wanted to got back, after a while it can get
>tedious to move back and forth (yes I know that is 
>what the up and down arrows are for) but this is
>another way of doing it.
>
>to add the back command (bash only at this moment)
>add the following lines to your .bashrc file 
>or your /etc/profile
>
>-- begin code --
>alias cd='export BWD=$PWD; cd'
>alias back='export CCOM="cd $BWD"; export TDIR=$PWD;
>`echo $CCOM`; export BWD=$TDIR'
>-- end code --
>
>-jeremy



Or use pushd/popd.



Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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