This is pretty cool. Thanks to Matt for the tip. I had no idea that pusd/popd were supported in Windows XP. This is similar to my revelation that Windows XP also supported TAB key Auto Complete from the command line. I’ve spent the last 15 min just pushd’ing and popd’ing with a big grin on my face. I am such a geek.
Starbucks got a bit loud (not that I have ever known that location to be quiet) so I came home. When I got here I pulled out a book I hadn't used in a while: Unix Power Tools. 14.05 talks about saving time when moving around to different directories. Lets say you are in directory /etc/fud/foo/frick/fork and want to check something out in /blah/blich/blue/boom. Well you could cd over there then cd back. 14.05 reminded me of the pushd and popd commands which I kind of miss now. So instead of cd /blah/blich/blue/boom, looking around then cd /etc/fud/foo/frick/fork to get back, you would pushd /blah/blich/blue/boom, look around, then popd and you are back to where you started. Turns out the same command exists in XP. Thats pretty cool.
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