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    And you can clear the stack by dirs -c Commented Mar 17, 2016 at 13:18
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    +1 for actually giving some practical examples. It's easy to see what pushd/popd do from the man page, but dirs and cd ~# are not obvious at first. Commented Apr 12, 2016 at 15:50
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    you could also use a solution like fasd for this kind of workflow instead, though Commented Jun 15, 2016 at 23:39
  • so its better for a more transient use case than setting a CDPATH? Commented Oct 30, 2016 at 1:28
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    @Jun, there's "mkdir dir{1,2,3}" to create 3 directories in one shot. Commented Feb 19, 2018 at 7:38