[olug] Unix Tip: SAYING PUT AND EXECUTING ELSEWHERE

[Brian Roberson]

outsode of pushd and popd here is another quick shell trick for ya ----  (
works in ksh, bash and tcsh for sure )

cd /home
cd /tmp
cd -
pwd
cd -
pwd



;-)



----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Wiese" <bwiese at cotse.com>
To: <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 8:12 PM
Subject: Re: [olug] Unix Tip: SAYING PUT AND EXECUTING ELSEWHERE


> Wasn't there some command that would let you go off into another shell or
> path for a moment to work on a config file or something, and then one
> could "cd back" to their previous path?  And I believe with the command
> you could go back and forth?
>
> Or was this possibly only by having a different path during an "su"
> situation, and then logging out of "su root" would bring you back to your
> local user path?
>
> If anyone knows, or esp ktb - I think you taught me this: TIA
>
> peace
> Brian
>
> On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 15:46:55 -0600 (CST)
> Dave Hull <dphull at insipid.com> wrote:
>
> |On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Unix Guru Universe wrote:
> |
> |> Doing things from the present directory.
> |> Say, if you want to list all the files
> |> in /etc directory being in your present
> |> directory you can do so by typing
> |>
> |> $ (cd /etc; ls -l)
> |
> |Whatever happened to good ol' "ls -l /etc" or if you want stay in your
> current
> |directory while executing scripts in another something equally tricky
> like
> |"/usr/local/bin/siggen.pl nordquist"?
> |
> |I'm still trying to figure out a situation in which this technique might
> be
> |more useful than simply using a full path.
> |
> |--
> |Dave Hull
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> |
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