Using pushd and popd

Question

Say I do the following:

cd ~
pushd .
cd /bin/
pushd .
dirs
"/bin/ ~/
cd ~/Downloads/
pushd .
dirs
~/Downloads /bin/ ~"

How would I popd back to something a while ago, say from downloads to the home directory~?

So what would I do popd 2 to go to something that I pushd'd two times ago? — user73959, Jul 02 '14 at 02:27

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 02 '14 at 02:23

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Depending on your shell, for zsh you can just use cd -N to change to your Nth previous directory.

For bash you can use for example dirs to get a directory name. You can use that to do something like cd "$(dirs -N)" which will go the the Nth previous directory, just like the zsh example above.

answered Jul 02 '14 at 02:23

Ulrich Dangel

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This seems to be what I was looking for, though it is a lot to type. I'll have to alias it once I figure out how to use arguments in aliases. – user73959 Jul 02 '14 at 02:30
look at http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/80692/refer-to-an-item-in-dirs and the answers there is a shortcut – Ulrich Dangel Jul 02 '14 at 02:30
So it would be cd ~2, if I understand right? – user73959 Jul 02 '14 at 02:33
After testing, it looks like that's how it works. Thanks. – user73959 Jul 02 '14 at 02:36

Using pushd and popd

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