Go back to the directory I was in on command line shell

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on August 27, 2007 - 6:45pm

unix go back to the directory i was in
go backwards one directory

cd -

at least in the Korn shell. Worked on my Mac's bash and on Agaric's Debian server.

More common shell commands for moving around in the file structure...

Go to home directory:

cd ~

Go up one directory

cd ..

unix go back to the directory i was in
go backwards one directory

cd -

at least in the Korn shell. Worked on my Mac's bash and on Agaric's Debian server.

More common shell commands for moving around in the file structure...

Go to home directory:

cd ~

Go up one directory

cd ..

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