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pushd within a pipeline says it's adding to the stack, but it's not? [duplicate]
I'm working on a modification of this approach to automatically saving and restoring bash's directory stack state when using pushd and popd. For some reason, my code to restore the saved state isn't ...
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`pushd` inside a while loop from file contents does not behave the same depending on read method [duplicate]
I'm pushing directories to my stack using a while loop that reads the contents of a file. I've tried two approaches that should be equivalent, but they behave different. Approach 1 export ...
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Confusing pushd/popd behaviour when sourcing script in zsh
I have a script which I source while in bash. It does various things and retains the $PWD I was in before sourcing it. pushd ~/.dotfiles >/dev/null || exit 1 # Do various things popd >/dev/...
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how to "execute command on file in multiple subdirectories within containing folder" i.e cd into each subdirectory containing file and execute command
I have a file named filename.sh in different directories. I am trying to simultaneously submit this file to run on a number of cluster nodes. I need to find this file wherever they may be, cd into ...
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What is the zsh equivalent of "pushd -n" in bash?
I want to push a directory onto the directory stack in order to refer to it using "tilde shorthand" (eg. ~1 refers to the second entry in the directory list), but I don't want to actually ...
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Getting tcsh dextract-like pushd functionality in bash
I love bash (4.1.2(1)-release) but I strongly prefer the way tcsh implements pushd +N with the dextract option enabled, so much so that I refuse to use bash as my default shell because of it. Has ...
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How is the pushd directory stack stored?
In a related question somebody states that the directory stack of the pushd command is emptied when your shell terminates. But how is the stack actually stored? I use fish instead of bash and the ...
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Directory stack (pushd and popd) behaviour in bash scripts
If I poorly write a script that uses pushd /etc but I don't finish it with popd: Will /etc still be in the pushd+popd directory stack/in RAM after the bash script has finished executing and Bash has ...
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$@ in alias inside script: is there a "local" $@?
I have aliased pushd in my bash shell as follows so that it suppresses output: alias pushd='pushd "$@" > /dev/null' This works fine most of the time, but I'm running into trouble now using it ...
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Can I rearrange the directories in `dirs` in the order of their most recent visits?
What is the order for the pathnames of the directories stored in the stack shown by dirs -l? Are they ordered by their last pushd commands? Is it possible to order them so that they are ordered by ...
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Why does `pushd` always output the stack to stdout? [closed]
pushd push a directory into the directory stack, and change the working directory. I guess that is all we need. But besides, why does pushd always output the stack to stdout? I think that is ...
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Why can't I which pushd
I've been using pushd and popd for a long time while writing bash script. But today when I execute which pushd, I get nothing as output. I can't understand this at all. I was always thinking that ...
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`mktemp -d` followed by `pushd` works fine on command line, but not when in a script
If I paste these lines into a command prompt on Debian... DIR=$(mktemp -d -t bbbrtc.XXXXXX) || exit 1 echo "tmpdir = $DIR" cd "$DIR" They make a new temp directory, print the directory name, and then ...
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Difference between pushd/popd and sub-shell+cd
I'm trying to understand if there are any benefits of using: pushd my_dir make all # ... or something else popd vs ( cd my_dir make all # ... or something else ) or is it merely a ...
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How shall we reproduce the stack in `dirs -v`?
I have a file whose content is the output of dirs -v, i.e. pathnames to directories: 0 ~/program_files/OS/dirs/recentVisitedDirs 1 ~/cs/security/computer security/OS security/user management/...
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