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Is there a way to go back to the previously visited directory?
say im in /dir1 then went to /dir2 and wanted to go back to /dir1.
besides from aliasing every directory i have, i was wondering if there's a way to maybe alias a command to go to the previously visited directory just to make it more convenient especially since i use deep subdirectories.

thanks a lot in advance.

you can use

Code:

cd -

. It will take you only to the last visited directory.

Say you were in /dir1 and then traversed to /dir2.

cd - will take you to /dir1.

You might want to look at pushd and popd as well.

Vino

I think cd - doesn'tn work in all shells.

What shell do you have.

cd - works only with ksh...
command for other shells will be helpful as I too feel requirement of same.

Works well with sh also.

Not sure about csh.

Vino

with bash :

cd $OLDPWD

Yes, works for me in both tcsh and bash, didn't try csh, but I have not seen anyone use plain csh as a login shell for several years.