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Mac OS X in a Nutshell
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Mac OS X in a Nutshell

by Jason McIntosh, Chuck Toporek, Chris Stone
January 2003
Intermediate to advanced
832 pages
32h 40m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

dirs

Synopsis

                     dirs [options]

Print the directory stack, showing the current directory first. See also popd and pushd. All options except -l, -n, and -v are tcsh extensions.

Options

-c

Clear the directory stack.

-l

Expand the home directory symbol (~) to the actual directory name.

-n

Wrap output.

-v

Print one directory per line.

-L file

Re-create stack from file, which should have been created by dirs -S file.

-S file

Print to file a series of pushd and popd commands, which can be invoked to replicate the stack.

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