The problem with: dirs, pushd, popd is that they output a single line of
paths that's difficult to parse visually quickly, especially when there are
many paths in the dir stack and the path
names are long.
dirs offers a reasonable solution with the -v option
Unfortunately popd and pushd do NOT of
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 wrote:
> On 4/17/17 2:05 PM, Pete Smith wro
Am clearly out of my league in these exchanges about possible
implementation. Nevertheless am heartened by
seeing these exchanges.
As to the question that came up in the dialogue:
> Um... don't you mean to use the alias command somewhere, like:
>
> alias popd='builtin popd|tr " " "\n"'
I defined
Thanks
I was being a bit dense, didn't realize that the format you gave causes the
commands to run in the parent shell.
It works as it should!
-Pete
On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 10:52 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 4/21/17 1:36 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
>
> > I think the key takeaway is that this is trivi
