Ahh that makes sense: "That will never change the current directory, since the popd is run in a subshell."
So what's the possibility of adding -v option to popd and pushd??? -Pete On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 1:33 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: > On 4/17/17 2:05 PM, Pete Smith wrote: > > > Using an alias solution: > > > > popd | sed 's/\s/\n/g' | nl > > > > doesn't work, probably because they are shell built-ins. > > That will never change the current directory, since the popd is run in > a subshell. > > -- > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates > Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~ > chet/ >