The cd command can do this?

zwylinux · 10-28-2006, 12:44 PM

How can I get back to the previous directory with cd? For example

$pwd
/home/zhou/fdk/fkd/ai/bbs/linux/fl/bt/mm/xx
$cd
$pwd
/home/zhou

Now I want to get back to the xx directory,how can i do that with cd?
Obviously I don't want to type such long directory path.

uselpa · 10-28-2006, 12:46 PM

use the command "cd -"

XavierP · 10-28-2006, 12:48 PM

No need to type it, use tab completion. So you would do

Code:

cd /home/zhou/f<hit tab>/f<hit tab> ....  and so on

zwylinux · 10-28-2006, 12:49 PM

Many thanks

zwylinux · 10-28-2006, 12:51 PM

I think cd - is quicker than tab when getting back to previous directory

btmiller · 10-28-2006, 12:52 PM

You can also use pushd and popd, e.g.:

Code:

slackme:~/prog/lanalytics 20$ pwd
/home/tim/prog/lanalytics
slackme:~/prog/lanalytics 21$ pushd ~
~ ~/prog/lanalytics
slackme:~ 22$ pwd
/home/tim
slackme:~ 23$ popd
~/prog/lanalytics
slackme:~/prog/lanalytics 24$ pwd
/home/tim/prog/lanalytics
slackme:~/prog/lanalytics 25$

uselpa · 10-28-2006, 12:54 PM

You can do more magic with the CDPATH environment variable. Look here for example.