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    I think this is the feature I take advantage of most often. Because pushd/popd work independent from cd, you can use them as a more stable bookmark than cd -. Commented Aug 17, 2016 at 15:31
  • for me this is not true. Every time i use cd my stack changes. Commented Apr 4, 2017 at 4:48
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    oh that was coz of using zsh, when I change to bash, it works fine Commented Apr 4, 2017 at 5:07
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    This is the only substantive answer as regards a comparison with cd -, IMO. As to whether pushd foo; <random dir changing>; popd is more worthwhile than a=foo; cd $a; <random dir changing>; cd $a ... For scripts I can see a tiny syntactic convenience in the former (pushd), but a massive improvement in clarity in the latter ([explicit] variables!). For an interactive session, I think I would just assume have my directory hierarchy organized properly in the first place, and if I got lost simply cd ~/back/to/obvious/path. Commented Jun 15, 2017 at 18:27
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    @HarendraSingh you don't happen to have AUTO_PUSHD set? It will make cd behave like pushd, unset it and you'll be back to "normal behaviour". Commented Dec 25, 2019 at 9:28