Re: Looking for trouble.

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

Bob Hilliard wrote:
  >"Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk> writes:
  >
  >> To go to the directory you were in last:
  >> cd ~-
  >
  >     What is the purpose of the tilde in this command?  In bash and
  >sh, at least, `cd -' is what I was taught, and it works fine.  Do some
  >other shells require `cd ~-'?
 
That is the Korn shell convention; I did not know that bash supported the
simpler form.

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