Re: Looking for trouble.
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 09:58:21AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> 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.
Do you mean that ~- is the ksh convention, or just - is? Just - works fine
on the ksh I'm used to (HP-UX). tcsh also supports "cd -".
Hamish
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