Great idea, Jimmy! I’ve used aliases with pushd/popd for decades, actually, but never thought to include an automatic ls on the end. For example:
alias ,=pushd
This uses one other nice feature of pushd — by itself it swaps the top two items on the directory stack! So you can quickly go back and forth between two directories with a single comma.
Including && ls at the end of this, though, prevents applying it in general, as any trailing file/directory arguments are picked up by the ls. But if you instead use a shell function:
function , { pushd $1 && clear && ls; }
it works both with and without an argument.
Also, if you don’t mind occasionally typing out source, you can repurpose . :
alias .=popd
I’m using . here because it’s next to ,, it signals finality, and there really aren’t any other punctuation keys available without shift that aren’t interpreted by the shell for something else 😀
I really like the .. idea, though I doubt I would use more than one level very often. One other suggestion I would make is to perhaps provide a variant,
alias ,,="pushd .. && clear && ls"
to add the parent directory to the directory stack.
Finally, sometimes I want to remind myself of the current directory stack, which is displayed with dirs. Again, being short on punctuation keys but given this is not that common, I can alias it to ,., which is in keeping with the rest of these options:
alias ,.=dirs
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Great idea, Jimmy! I’ve used aliases with
pushd/popdfor decades, actually, but never thought to include an automaticlson the end. For example:This uses one other nice feature of pushd — by itself it swaps the top two items on the directory stack! So you can quickly go back and forth between two directories with a single comma.
Including
&& lsat the end of this, though, prevents applying it in general, as any trailing file/directory arguments are picked up by thels. But if you instead use a shell function:it works both with and without an argument.
Also, if you don’t mind occasionally typing out
source, you can repurpose.:I’m using
.here because it’s next to,, it signals finality, and there really aren’t any other punctuation keys available without shift that aren’t interpreted by the shell for something else 😀I really like the
..idea, though I doubt I would use more than one level very often. One other suggestion I would make is to perhaps provide a variant,to add the parent directory to the directory stack.
Finally, sometimes I want to remind myself of the current directory stack, which is displayed with
dirs. Again, being short on punctuation keys but given this is not that common, I can alias it to,., which is in keeping with the rest of these options: