Re: Issus with popd and pushd

[Pete Smith]

Ahh that makes sense:

   "That will never change the current directory, since the popd is run in a subshell."

So what's the possibility of adding -v option to popd and pushd???

-Pete

On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 1:33 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

On 4/17/17 2:05 PM, Pete Smith wrote:

> Using an alias solution:
>
>   popd | sed 's/\s/\n/g' | nl
>
> doesn't work, probably because they are shell built-ins.

That will never change the current directory, since the popd is run in
a subshell.

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