Help Please!! -- need to find command that will switch you back to your previous CWD
 

Hello. Can anyone tell me what the command is to switch back to your previous current working directory? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

-- Tron

cd - # add the dash after a space,

the previous directory is also stored in a variable
called OLDPWD so

cd $OLDPWD would also work, or you could copy files from
your new directory to the old using something like

cp filea $OLDPWD

Thank you!
 

Yes, exactly what I was look for (cd -).

Thanks alot -- I've got a test tomorrow morning and that question was asked on the study sheet, but I couldn't find it anywhere in my text book, so your help is greatly appreciated. Thanks again.

-- Tron