Korn Shell: Unix and Linux Programming Manual, Third Edition, The

Directory Functions

These Korn shell functions implement the C shell directory management commands: dirs, popd, and pushd. They can be put into a separate cshfuncs file and read in with the . command when necessary. Their basic functionality is:

dirs	display directory stack
popd	remove directory stack entry and cd to it
pushd	add directory stack entry and cd to it

The dirs function lists the current directory stack.

With no argument, the popd function removes the top entry (previous working directory) from the directory stack and changes directory to it. If a +n argument is given, then the nth directory stack entry (nth previous working directory) is removed.

With no argument, the pushd function switches the top two entries (current and previous ...