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Linux in a Nutshell, 6th Edition
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Linux in a Nutshell, 6th Edition

by Ellen Siever, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
September 2009
Beginner
942 pages
85h 34m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

dirs

Synopsis

dirs [-clpv] [+n] [-n]

Print the directory stack, which is managed with pushd and popd.

Options

+n

Print the nth entry from the left; first entry is zero.

-n

Print the nth entry from the right; first entry is zero.

-c

Remove all entries from (clear) the directory stack.

-l

Produce a longer listing, one that does not replace $HOME with ~.

-p

Print the directory stack, one entry per line.

-v

Print the directory stack, one entry per line, with each entry preceded by its index in the stack.

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