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12-14-2009, 02:57 PM
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Registered: Sep 2008
Location: USA
Distribution: Linux Mint Qiana
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Get back to original directory
Hi,
Sometimes I cd to a linked directory, and when I issue cd .., it takes me one level back, but not to the parent directory in which the link was there, but the true parent directory of the linked directory (I hope I could spell it clearly!).
How to get back to the parent directory (the one which has the link) from within the linked directory?
PS:
even cd - does not help
~hatim
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12-14-2009, 03:02 PM
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Location: Atlanta
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The easiest way is to always know where you are at. Another way is instead of doing 'ls' for find the directories, do 'ls -l' so you can find the links and see where they go. Then you can do an 'ls' on the link location. i.e. 'ls <linklocation>'
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12-14-2009, 03:03 PM
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Registered: Apr 2007
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Hello faizlo,
in bash the variable OLDPWD is the "old working directory". So will bring you back to there.
Markus
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12-14-2009, 03:06 PM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Annapolis, MD
Distribution: Mint
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On my system, "cd -" and "cd .." both take me back to where I was. If I drill down, cd ../.. also takes me to the original starting point. So......maybe this means there is a config file somewhere???
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12-14-2009, 03:10 PM
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Hello together,
many Linuxdistributions come with the aliases
Code:
alias ..='cd ..' and
alias ...='cd ../..'
Markus
Last edited by markush; 12-14-2009 at 03:14 PM.
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12-14-2009, 03:12 PM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Annapolis, MD
Distribution: Mint
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Quote:
Originally Posted by markush
Hello together,
many Linuxdistributions come with the aliases
Code:
alias ..='cd ..' and
alias ...='cd ../..'
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Markus
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If "cd .." does not work as desired, then how would this alias help?
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12-14-2009, 03:13 PM
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Registered: Sep 2008
Location: USA
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Thank you all for the quick response (which make feel guilty of not posting before  )
Markush, your trick worked. I will create an alias "back, or orig" and insert it in my .bashrc file.
Thank you all again,
~faizlo
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12-14-2009, 03:16 PM
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cd $OLDPWD worked with bash, but not with tcsh 
It say, OLDPWD: undefined variable.
Any hints!?
~faizlo
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12-14-2009, 03:23 PM
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Hi,
in tcsh "cd -" should work (refering to the manpage). I'd recommend to read the manpage and search for "working" and in the manpage execute
Markus
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12-14-2009, 04:50 PM
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On tcsh shells, the command is: cd $owd (small letters)
~faizlo
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