I’ve been using bash forever and never knew about this:
$ cd -
This will let you change directory to your previous location in the file system. It’s and easy way switch back and forth between two directories.
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June 4th, 2008 Add Your Comments
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Bill August 15, 2010
Awesome! Thanks!
Something I use a lot in bash: !!
it repeats the last command, and you can even add on to it like this:
$ ping example.c
ping: cannot resolve example.c: Unknown host
$ !!om
ping example.com
PING example.com (192.0.32.10): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.0.32.10: icmp_seq=0 ttl=253 time=1.251 ms
Cool! Computers!!!
|Nathan July 18, 2011
I just felt my brain grow from reading those two shortcuts. They’ll be huge timesavers! Thanks guys.
|Josh Beauregard November 23, 2011
You just made my life a little easier. Now to commit it to memory.
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