Anatole Olczak - The Korn Shell: Unix & Linux Programming Manual

These Korn shell functions implement the C shell directory management commands: dirs , popd , and pushd . They can be put into a separate cshfuncs file and read in with the . command when necessary. Their basic functionality is:

The dirs function lists the current directory stack.

With no argument, the popd function removes the top entry (previous working directory) from the directory stack and changes directory to it. If a + n argument is given, then the nth directory stack entry ( nth previous working directory) is removed.

With no argument, the pushd function switches the top two entries (current and previous working directory) and changes directory to the previous working directory. This is equivalent to " cd ?/span>". If a directory argument is given, pushd puts the directory on the top of the directory stack and changes directory to it. If a + n argument is given, pushd puts the nth directory stack entry ( nth previous working directory) on the top of the stack and changes directory to it.

The following sections contain Korn shell equivalents of some miscellaneous C shell commands and functions.

In the C shell, commands in the ~/.logout file are executed on exit . If the following command is added to the ~/.profile file, then the same thing will happen in the Korn shell:

The C shell chdir command changes to the specified directory and can be set to a Korn shell alias like this: