Re: Looking for trouble.

[Bob Hilliard <hilliard@flinet.com>]

"Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk> writes:

> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Oliver Elphick                                Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk
> Isle of Wight                              http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver


     I have learned two things from this exchange:

     1.  I learned how the Korn Shell handles this.

     2.  I learned to specify the applicable shell when answering a
question about shell commands.

Bob
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