Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Third Edition

How to do it...

The pushd and popd commands replace cd for changing your working directory.

1. To push and change a directory to a path, use this command:

        ~ $ pushd /var/www

Now the stack contains /var/www ~ and the current directory is changed to /var/www.

2. Now, push the next directory path:

        /var/www $ pushd /usr/src

 Now the stack contains /usr/src/var/www ~ and the current directory is /usr/src.

You can push as many directory paths as needed.

3. View the stack contents:

        $ dirs
        /usr/src /var/www ~ /usr/share /etc
        0           1              2  3              4      

4. Now when you want to switch to any path in the list, number each path from 0 to n, then use the path number for which we need to switch. Consider this example:

        $ pushd +3

 Now it will rotate the stack and ...