Nice Aliases for pushd (Unix Power Tools, 3rd Edition)

31.8. Nice Aliases for pushd

The pushd command (Section 31.7) is nice for jumping around the filesystem, but some of the commands you might type a lot, like pushd +4, are sort of a pain to type. I saw these aliases (Section 29.2) in Daniel Gilly's setup file. They looked so handy that I decided to steal them for this book. There are C shell versions in the first column and Bourne-type in the second:

alias pd pushd                 alias pd=pushd
alias pd2 'pushd +2'           alias pd2='pushd +2'
alias pd3 'pushd +3'           alias pd3='pushd +3'
alias pd4 'pushd +4'           alias pd4='pushd +4'
      ...

So, for example, to swap the fourth directory on the stack, just type pd4.

-- JP