I think my main complaint about the uses of it is that the "make a list, and consume from a list" idea is pretty basic to programming in general and I prefer to use a common approach instead of having a specific one for directories. On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > I see. So it is a way to stack directories in your order so you can go in > reverse a certain order and save yourself some typing. pushd is strange. if > you execute it alone it reverses the last two directories on your stack. I > didn't know about 'cd -'; thanks for sharing that with me. > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 1:10 PM, James Mcphee wrote: > >> pushd and popd are stack-oriented. You may notice with cd that you can >> do "cd -" to go to your previous directory. Think of pushd and popd as a >> way to store those up. You pushd into various directories, which loads >> them up on the stack, then popd and you get cd'd back into those >> directories (in reverse order). >> >> Now, you may be asking yourself "why?". It's just an old way of doing >> things back when the speed of stack memory meant something. I'm sure >> someone could figure out an actual use for it, but every time I see it >> implemented, it's done to be obscure, not because it couldn't be more >> simply implemented with an array. >> >> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Michael Havens wrote: >> >>> what is the difference between pushd and pod and the command cd >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> James McPhee >> jmcphe@gmail.com >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- James McPhee jmcphe@gmail.com