Unix C Shell Question...previous working directory

[NaturalChiller]

Is there a way in csh to jump from the current directory (ie pwd) to the path of the previous working directory? Without using pushd popd and dirs?

 

[baoytl]

You mean something like

cd ..

?

edit:
I forgot. This is in my .cshrc file. I'm not sure if this is what you wanted.

if ( $?tcsh ) then
alias cd 'set oldwd=$cwd;chdir \!*; set prompt="%m% "'
alias po 'popd \!*; set prompt="%m% "'
alias pu 'pushd \!*; set prompt="%m% "'
if ( $?prompt ) set prompt="%m% "
bindkey ^w backward-delete-word
unset autologout
# for tcsh within emacs
if $?EMACS unset edit
else
set lochost = `hostname | awk -F. '{print $1}'`
alias cd 'cd \!*; set prompt="$lochost% "'
alias po 'popd \!*; set prompt="$lochost% "'
alias pu 'pushd \!*; set prompt="$lochost% "'
if ( $?prompt ) set prompt="$lochost% "
endif

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

.. is the parent directory, not the last directory visited.

Maybe make a function called cd that does pushd and directs the output to /dev/null. Unless I'm missing something, I think that does what you want. And then alias popd to whatever else, also throwing away output. Not sure about csh, but in sh:



death@two ~ % cd() {
> pushd $* >/dev/null
> }
death@two ~ % alias back='popd >/dev/null'
death@two ~ % cd /tmp
death@two /tmp % cd /etc
death@two /etc % back
death@two /tmp % back
death@two ~ %

 

[FatAlbo]

cd -

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: FatAlbo
cd -

/me is amazed