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From a POSIX shell `$OLDPWD` holds the name of the previous working directory:
cd /tmp
echo You are here: $PWD
echo You were here: $OLDPWD
cd $OLDPWD

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#linux #shell #unix #cd
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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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Neat :) Not being POSIX that doesn’t work for me in Fish shell but Alt+left-arrow goes to the previous working directory and Alt+right-arrow goes to the next.

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#linux #unix #fishshell #cd
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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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Ah, yes, I’d misremembered it as cd -1 yesterday while trying out the posix stuff in fish and was wondering why it wasn’t working :)
in reply to ~/hyde

Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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Ah, then that’s where I remember it from. I was on zsh before fish :)
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