14.12 Marking Your Place with a Shell VariableThe following alias will store the current directory name in a variable: alias mark 'set \!:1=$cwd' so as to use a feature of the C shell: % One need not even type (I generally use
pushd
and popd
(14.6
)
to store directory names;
mark
is
more useful with commands that need to look in two different paths,
and there [In bash
, you can do this by setting the cdable_vars
variable.
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