17 Mar
2005
17 Mar
'05
7:25 p.m.
On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 13:16 -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:
Somebody please tell me I'm not the first to think of this and that I overlooked some simple bash built-in or pacman package... Its so simple... but sometimes very useful.
I think zsh may have something similar to this built in... not sure though... zsh is too complicated for my tastes
Heretic. zsh is the answer to all your problems :) I don't know of anything in zsh exactly like this, but you can just use the ~<number> syntax to refer to directories in the directory stack (I've a feeling this is standard ksh syntax too, so should work in bash too). i.e. 'cp ~1/foo .' copies foo from the directory on the top of the stack to the current directory. - olly