Posting about pushd in that last post reminded me of some scripts I wrote a while back. I am certain there MUST be something like this available out there, probably built into bash, but I never found it, so I wrote these scripts. Let me know what I missed. ;-) Basically, they behave as 'cut and paste files' on the command line. I can cd into a directory, 'grab' a file or list of files, cd or pushd to another directory, and 'clone' (copy) or 'drop' (move) those files into that directory without having to type the full path to different directories in a mv or cp command. Here's the scripts: ################## grab #################### #!/bin/sh grabfile=~/.grab if [ $# -le 0 ]; then echo "Usage: grab filename (filename...)" echo echo "copies filenames to the grabboard to be moved/copied using drop/clone" exit 1 fi if [ -e $grabfile ]; then rm $grabfile fi while [ "$#" -ne "0" ]; do if [ -e $1 ]; then if [ $(echo $1 | grep -e "^\/") ]; then echo -n $1" " >> $grabfile else echo -n $(pwd)/$1" " >> $grabfile fi fi shift done ##################### clone ############## #!/bin/sh grabfile=~/.grab function usage() { echo "Usage: drop [mv|cp]" echo echo "copy/move file[s] specified in a grab statement to the current directory" exit 1 } if [ $# -eq 1 ]; then if [ $1 = "cp" -o $1="mv" ]; then command=$1 else usage fi elif [ $# -eq 0 ]; then command=cp else usage fi if [ $command = cp ]; then command="cp -r" fi if [ -e $grabfile ]; then eval $command $(cat $grabfile) . else echo "no files to drop" exit 1 fi ##################### drop ################## #!/bin/sh clone mv 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. NOTE: I have had trouble with some of these with files that have names beginning with a dash or number. Dusty