Any Bash features you'd like to see?

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Wed, 11 May 2005, John Vetterli wrote:

> On Wed, 11 May 2005, Taavi Burns wrote:
>>  On 5/11/05, John Vetterli <jvetterli-zC6tqtfhjqE at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> >  I'd like to have some sort of directory history (i.e. as I cd from
>> >  directory to directory, have bash remember the last N directories I
>> >  visited, and be able to go back).
>>  You mean 'pushd' and 'popd'?  (well, it might be nice to not have to
>>  specify pushd)
>
> Um, yeah, something like that.  Boy, William implemented that one pretty 
> quickly, eh?
>
> I guess you could do some magic with alias to avoid having to use pushd.

cd() { pushd "${@:-$HOME}"; }

cdx() { popd "$@"; }

    You might want to improve on the cd function to handle the -P and -L
    options to cd.

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